I’ve been in my head. I’d rather be inside you, beside you, with you. You’ve been in my head where increasingly is the only place you exist for me. Being with you through a screen is not good enough. I will put the phone down and you along with it.

Updates to Select Parts of The Lord’s Prayer

… Give us this day our daily bread, and the bakery too. And, forgive us our trespasses, as you give us the strength to not fuck up those who trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation, But, Lord, even You You know You made us this way. Deliver us from evil, even as we …

Who am I? Who do I want to be? What do I want to be?   I don’t know. I don’t know.   I don’t know.   What do you know?   I know that it’s not this.

Possible Responses to “Praise God”

Amen! This is the default reply, ingrained from years of going to church, that even now I find I just barely catch myself uttering it. So, why say it? Because it’s easier to let the other party assume we share a faith since they’ll leave me alone sooner. What God? I’m more likely to say …

What Not Listening to Beyoncé’s Music Says About You

Nothing Nada Nichts Rien Niente Hakuna Niks Nic Niets Anyen Nihil Neko Xejn Ingenting Waxba Wala Lutho Zip Additional source: “Nothing” In Different Languages

John Wick

She has a sharp tongue, quick to make you laugh, and to cut you down. She is often introverted, yet blooms like a sunflower in the right company, quick to laugh and to enjoy dancing. She can sometimes even be described as bubbly. She can talk your ear off or consume you in her silence. …

I get this sense with my age group that having mental health issues is something to be proud of, a flex, as the kids call it. I find this discomfitting. While being open and honest about mental health issues is a key step in their destigmatization, I am not convinced mental health issues are something …

Paradox

Children, a product of not having birth control, are in and of themselves a form of birth control.

One of the most scathing pieces of feedback I have ever received from a  line manager was, “Inability to maintain multi-level focus”. At the time, I was too emotional to consider if he had a point. I had just gone through a painful breakup and my grandfather had died, all within a month. I was …

Strategic Partnership

Generally-accepted definition A business partnership that involves the sharing of resources between two or more individuals or companies to help all involved succeed. Strategic partners are usually non-competing businesses and often share both the risks and rewards of the decisions of both companies. The goal of a strategic partnership is to create value for each …