A Eulogy For My Grandmother
Yesterday was the condolence function that culminates the grieving period. This is the eulogy I wrote for my grandmother.
Relationships
Navigating Family, Friendship, Marriage, Colleagues, Companions & other social connections
Faith At A Funeral
How do you find the will to go on, as an unbeliever faced with death? I struggled at my grandmother’s funeral.
The Dating Thing
Let’s do the dating thing.
It’s not a fling if it’s not something you can just throw away
It’s not a fling if it is not something that you can just throw away. It’s just not. Then why are you doing it? Who knew having fun could be so much effort?
Love, Learn, Live
You never stop growing. Never stop marveling at how little you knew last year or ten years ago. I wonder if it’s just me or everyone feels this way sometimes. Like I’m so different now than I was a few years ago, if I went back in a time machine,…
“Office Spouse”
This is as smiley as I’m going to get with you, ‘Office Spouse’!
Post-Breakup Custody Battles
You take a look around and mentally divide everything you see in half. You color code, (all in your head of course) what’s indisputably yours and what’s their’s. And finally, you get to what’s yours collectively and groan mentally at the difficult conversation you’re going to endure. They’re very likely…
Being Okay Again
I decided to pick happiness over drama this time and funnily enough, it actually was enough. I’m getting to be okay again.
The answer to “What happened?” and other such unanswerable questions
It struck me last night, when I was sitting on the floor of a slight friend’s house, talking to another friend when she asked me, “So how are you doing?“ Then she looked at me straight in the eye and pointed to her own heart. I stared back, a fraction…
The Badness Of Good Boys
Is the Good Boy really that much better than the Bad Boy?