About a year and a half ago I was devastated by the end of a 3 ½ year relationship. His name was Alex and he left me for another woman. I was crushed. Six or eight weeks later the pain had become anger. My anger was directed at no one but Alex, nevertheless it was pretty much all-consuming. Oddly, I still loved him.

For a few days I went about the task of throwing out everything that reminded me of him. Traditional photos I threw out, digital photos I deleted. Gifts Alex had...

I have mentioned several times in this silly blog that I am an atheist. Not too many people state, unasked, their religious views and I actually feel kind of guilty when I state mine. To be forthright, I am a bit of a contentious atheist. Being a contentious anything is pretty much out of my character. Few people have ever heard my voice raised in anger.

This contentiousness began about ten years ago when I finally accepted the fact that I was an atheist. Too much of the religious...

I went into work early today with the idea that I would get away at about noon. I wanted to go to my exercise facility for get in a little work on the elliptical, and then do some grocery shopping before my boyfriend and I go out to dinner this evening.

Earlier today at work I was visited by two salesmen representing an area vender. After the two men had taken a couple of chairs in front of my desk, I clumsily dropped a pen onto the floor. While I was bent over seated on my chair...

I invited my boyfriend to come spend Christmas with my parents and me at my parents’ house. Normally that kind of sentence would bring images of Yuletide with Christmas carols being sung, and eggnog being gulped. Well, not so fast.

I am 27 years old and my boyfriend, Steve, is 52, albeit a young 52. He is two years older than my mother, and only a couple of years younger than my father. Steve and I have been dating for almost six months and I have told both of my parents all...

Almost anything I have ever attempted to do has come easily for me. When I was in elementary school we would have class spelling bees. I won them about 50% of the time. I would have won 90% of them had it not been for smartypants Carly Daniels. I did well in math and sciences too. I remember tests where when the student had finished, he or she just turned in the test and was free to go out onto the playground. I was always one of the first done, first to leave. I wondered what took the others so...