By Valerie on July 25, 2011
Wow, less than three weeks left on my 100 day project! The tail end of it kinda snuck up on me, around the 50 mark I felt totally done with the cursed thing, so amazing to come up for air and discover I’m in the home stretch now.
Been looking back to the beginning and what started it all, figure I’ve got enough days done to use as a stick to measure how far I’ve come. It seems a short distance. I’m still stuck, though less uptight about it. Continue reading »
Posted in another 100 days Tagged CFS, chronic illness, dating, relationships, risk, spirit, stuck, vulnerability, writing
By Valerie on June 24, 2011
There’s fear churning in Gloria’s belly as she makes her morning coffee. And it’s not because there’s a zombie banging a shovel against her kitchen window. Continue reading »
Posted in another 100 days, Love of the Living Dead Tagged dating, fiction, gardening, love, relationships, utter bloody silliness, zombies
By Valerie on June 22, 2011
It occurred to me while watching very bad movie: good dialog has a natural flow to it. Bad writing just uses dialog to further your plot points (very naughty to try and play God!). So I decided to take advantage of being on the streets downtown today to eavesdrop on some conversations to see what a natural one actually sounds like. Continue reading »
Posted in another 100 days Tagged awkward, conversations, dating, dialog, fiction, writing
By Valerie on June 2, 2011
You know when you hear those things you know to be VERY true, but holy crap do you ever not want to hear them? Well I’ve had a good number of those coming at me this week.
Firstly, I was talking to a friend yesterday about my latest post, about how people were responding to that and all the things that were stressing me out from it and the rest of my life (as an aside, cheers for friends who will just sit and lovingly let you rant ’til it’s all spent). Somewhere in the midst of my emotional regurgitation she just cocks her head to the side and says to me:
When men want to take care of you, you get really uncomfortable. Continue reading »
Posted in another 100 days Tagged changes, compassion, dating, love, relationships, resiliency, risk, truth, vulnerability
By Valerie on June 1, 2011
Somebody was telling me about one of Mark Hopkins’ We Should Know Each Other events in his livingroom. He got the conversation started with the question: what scares you? Good one! I’m all for getting people beyond the shallow small talk, and this question is a hum-dinger way to do that.
It also got me thinking, what scares me right now? Continue reading »
Posted in another 100 days, romantic ponderings Tagged dating, fear, intuition, love, paradox, relationships, stuck, unconditional
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