For these past few years I have moved from one culture to another, trying on this way of being and that way of being like a person does hats. The strange thing that has happened is I haven’t found a hat that works. Nor can I go back to the first hat because things...
Do you ever long to reinvent yourself? If you were going to do that, who would you become? What kind of life would you create? How would you know it would be better than the one you have? If you were going to reinvent yourself, who would you become? Here are a couple...
I have a silly fear. Since all of a sudden I decided to jump back into the marriage game, I am afraid I have lost my legitimacy as a woman author who is writing about the single woman’s plight. Does it help my credibility that I still feel like a single woman? Most of...
Pain and loss seem be what I am good at. I didn’t know I could feel so much extreme pain outside of childbirth. If you offered the same meds they prescribe to ease the pain of childbirth, I’d take them in flash. Yes, sometimes the foot long needle to the back...
I have been bellyaching for weeks about how much I don’t want to be single. I want to be married. Be with a person that loves me, and we are there for each other and have the security of commitment. Sounds nice, doesn’t it? Then the other day I was playing at an...
Facebook Party for Silent Cries by Anastasia Alexander