I recently started writing a series in which I told the story of how I reconnected with my past love. If you haven’t read them, you can find parts 1-6 linked at the bottom of this post. This piece picks up just after we reconnected for the first time and discovered neither of us had [...]
So just now, I was laying in bed at 3pm on a Saturday after brunching and boozing it up with a friend, trying in vain to nap off the copious amount of carbs I just consumed. Did I ever tell y’all that I cannot nap to save my life? I never learned how, which is [...]
I could see the contempt in her eyes. She only half-listened to me telling the story of how I’d reconnected with my past love. As I continued to speak, I didn’t let on that I noticed her shifting eye contact every so often from mine to stare pointedly at another friend across the table who’d [...]
Look, we all try. We try to get to Whole Foods to buy the grass-fed beef and pasture-raised chicken eggs and organic raw unsalted almonds. But let’s be real. Ain’t nobody got time for that. We’re all busy. And sometimes no matter how hard we try, we’re faced with let’s say, less than optimal food [...]
The office’s ugly chair was as uncomfortable as always. All the better to provoke emotional spillage. “So, how was your trip up North?” I stopped myself from fidgeting. “Surprising. I reconnected with my former boyfriend. We hadn’t spoken in over a year.” My therapist’s frazzled eyebrows lifted. “That’s big! Did you intend to see him, or [...]
