I AM feelings. My memory is based on feelings. My planning and organization of the future is based on my feelings. Every cell in my body feels every situation, every experience with so much emotion. For too long I have equated this reality with weakness. It is, on the contrary, such a powerful strength that […]
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Listening to Cardi B, wondering what it means to be sex positive means after sexual abuse… It’s easy to say – I love sex. Especially if you’re a man. But what if you’re a woman? And what if you’ve been sexually exploited, abused, harassed? What then? How do you move on from these memories? I
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I didn’t realize it then, but that was the beginning of the end. In the warm water of the Caribbean Sea with only our bras and panties, everything else waiting for us on the sandy beach. We were floating on our backs and looking up at the stars. This was where the ending began. And
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A Day with Grammie You want to enjoy it, you do. You want to smile sweetly at her wrinkled, weathered face and feel a rush of love for this woman who is connected to you in some abstract way. You didn’t even grow up with her, not really. There were visits maybe once a year
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THE BROKEN CUP They say you can’t pour from an empty cup. Meaning of course that you cannot give more than you have. Logically, this makes sense – we know that you cannot produce something out of nothing. Another of these anecdotes is that you can’t squeeze water from a rock. I have found both
