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14 October 2008

I can hardly believe my eyes, or myself. Everything is changing so rapidly that I can no longer manage the curves.

When I moved in here, a little over a year ago, I moved into a place that I [...]

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4 August 2008

I feel like I am floating in some strange dreamscape, where nothing is real. I reach out to touch, but whatever I try to touch simply disappears. Perhaps I have disappeared.

The madness continues. Do I really expect it to stop? Yes, I do. I call myself an idiot [...]

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19 July 2008

I feel abandoned. I feel like I am on an island alone, floating without compass or map, directionless.

Today, a man who called yesterday about her daughter needing an apartment showed up with his wife and child. And she is a child; 21 years old. She is Lesbian, and heartbroken because [...]

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16 June 2008

I know now why I cannot live. I know now why I cannot find a place in this world for me; there *is* no place in this world for me.

I am 52 years old. Half or more of my teeth are missing. I have no job. I am in [...]

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4 April 2008
 
 
It is Friday afternoon, April 4, and I am thinking about that shot ringing out in the Memphis sky.
 
I may be white, but somehow, many of my heroes are black. And Dr. King is certainly one of them. The vision, the dreams, the words, the courage – he had them all. [...]

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4 March 2008
 
It’s raining again. A cold rain, slicing to the bone. Every Tuesday, every Friday, for weeks now it has been rain or snow. It chills me, entices me to lay down and sleep, forgetting the pain and fear in my life right now.
 
I thought I was going to have to [...]

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27 February 2008
What is precancerous? How can they tell something is pre cancerous? Isn’t it either cancerous or not?

Yesterday, I stood in the cold, snow falling, having stumbled off the bus to the news from my cell phone that indeed, I have a “precancerous condition”. That’s what the doctor said. “What [...]

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28 January 2008
 
The process has begun.
 
We talked Saturday, and he managed to be reasonable up to a point before going off on me yet again. This is the way it always works. Well, that is not entirely true. Actually, it is rare that he can sit down and be a reasonable adult for [...]

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January 23, 2008
 
It is getting worse again. R. is arguing, baiting, yelling, accusing, demeaning, demanding, and generally pouring out a fount of negativity in my direction. I wonder how much longer I can take this ocean of emotional negativity.
 
I’m not using the word “abuse”. Make no mistake; it is abuse. But [...]

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Poverty

24 January 2008
 
There are times I think I cannot take any more of this, this being the verbiage hurled at me by my emotional wreck of a husband. But silence does not seem to make me feel better: yesterday, he did not speak to me at all, leaving in silence, and, by the [...]

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