I don’t fancy myself a photographer, although the medium has always interested me. My ex-husband had to take a photography class when he was an undergrad, and in addition to being his subject now and then, I would observe him sometimes as he fiddled around with aperture settings and shutter speeds on the ancient, ever-so-slightly [...]
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The Best Photo I’ve Taken
Posted in Art, Coney Island, Places I've been, tagged Plinky on April 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A letter I have been dying to write
Posted in Love, Men suck, Places I've been, tagged jackwagonry on April 11, 2011 | 2 Comments »
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure. –Peter Marshall Dear Shit-for-Brains Ex-Fiance Who Shall Remain Nameless, On April 11, 2010, on a rainy, foggy, miserable San Francisco day, we went on a tour of Alcatraz with your parents. After we [...]
Mirror, mirror
Posted in Family, Health, Love, Neuroses, Places I've been, tagged jackwagonry on March 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As I wind down my discussion of NPD, I wanted to share a few final thoughts…. First off, I have found that part of the recovery process for anyone who has experienced this (and it is a process) necessitates shifting your focus away from all the things the narcissistic parent did to traumatize/damage you and [...]
Love is a battlefield
Posted in Family, Health, Love, Neuroses, Places I've been, tagged jackwagonry on March 21, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday, I devoted many words to Narcissistic Personality Disorder, or NPD. My dad, although never formally diagnosed, shows enough of the symptoms that I think it’s safe to say he’s got it and has had it for most of his adult life. I wrote a lot yesterday about what it was like to grow up [...]
Cracking the mirror
Posted in Family, Health, Love, Neuroses, Places I've been, Travel, tagged jackwagonry on March 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Fathers, be good to your daughters/Daughters will love like you do… -John Mayer One week ago, I returned home from a trip to the town where I grew up, Bellevue, Washington. I had not been out to visit in nearly three years, although my mother and father had made a couple of trips to visit [...]
My Favorite Photo of Me
Posted in Places I've been, Random thoughts, tagged Plinky on October 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This photo was taken on my 34th birthday… May 14 of this year. It’s my favorite picture of me because it serves as a reminder of two things: 1. How blissfully happy I was that day. 2. How much happier I am now.
Bisbee
Posted in Dreams, Places I've been, Travel, tagged Arizona, Vacation on October 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
new cities keep on sprawling old towns falling too raining a river of color and it’s flowing bisbee blue straight to you bisbee blue some say this way’s the only one that’s true bring me back bisbee blue bring me back -Calexico On Friday, September 10, after only about two hours of sleep (the result [...]
Confidential to my Brooklyn peeps
Posted in Blathering, Cars, Coney Island, Places I've been on February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
May I just say… the center lane on the Gowanus Expressway between about 65th St. and right before the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel is BRUTAL! My rear end still hurts from all the bouncing. From this day forward, everytime I hear that ka-CHUNK noise a car makes when it hits a metal object in the road [...]
Goodbye my Coney Island baby
Posted in Coney Island, Places I've been, Travel on August 28, 2006 | 1 Comment »
I hopped the 6 a.m. bus to New York on Saturday morning, just to spend a few hours in Manhattan and Brooklyn. I won’t be able to do that so easily for much longer, so I needed to say my goodbyes. Coney Island was so quiet. I got there around 11 a.m., before most of [...]
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