What is it about you? Why does your story captivate me when so many others don’t? Why, ten years after that first spark of interest, does my fascination with you continue to grow? Many other passions of mine have flared and guttered over a much shorter period of time, but…

Month in, month out, we play this game, month in, month out, exactly the same, will it be plain sailing or will it be hell? That’s the problem you see, you never can tell, each month is a role of the bodily dice, will it feel like my womb’s being squeezed in a vice? Will backpain…

A long-dead king once showed me my relationship was also long dead. As the train pulled out I watched the receding silhouette of Windsor castle, beginning to suspect that it, like the man sitting opposite, had already elicited its last smile from me. Unlike the man about whom I’d been…

I spent so long putting things on pedestals that really didn’t belong there, I left them up longer than I should have, gazed upon them far longer than they warranted, insisting l could see the beauty while ignoring the gaping cracks and missing chunks, the garish designs and irreparable damage, until I finally saw them for what…

With the last few strokes of the pencil, my latest portrait is done. I gaze down at it, and I am not entirely sure what I think. I leave for an hour, go shopping, run some errands. I come back, gaze down at it again, and the more I gaze…

I’m tired of this bittersweetness, these tempered victories, of hoping for a crown but having to content myself with single jewels, acquired one by one over the course of many years and after several false starts. I’m tired of receiving plentiful praise but only partial rewards, of being left to wonder if…

He was my Hermes, my Trickster God, all sparkling eyes and beguiling smiles, or was it sparkling smiles and beguiling eyes? An uninvited guest but a welcome one, my conscious mind fought against him while the rest of me did no such thing, he had a way of tripping me with his feet while holding me up with…

The announcement came just days after booking the tickets, a paper gift for our paper anniversary, “You’ll never guess who’s taking over?” A news article pulled up on a screen, beamed into my disbelieving face, that kind of serendipity hardly ever happens to me, and when the day came, a thought I’d never had before: Please, don’t let it…

Music-the remedy for most modern ailments, can be taken anywhere in a variety of forms, used to combat the monotony of a commute or decompress at the end of the workday, can be used to alleviate the symptoms of even the most severe bouts of grief, for best results, listen in the evening, allow the notes to…