Oh! How I loved you when the delivery men carried you through the front door…
Many times in my long life, I have leaped: started off in a wild new direction, taken risks, jumped into the unknown —…
How do you know when a relationship is worth keeping?
It comes with uncertainty, doubts and fear.
When was the last time you asked yourself this question?
Today, someone gently asked me a question that I should have known the answer to. It’s still frustrating that I didn’t know…
I love my family. I would do anything for them. They are caring, supportive, loving and good people. They are. I believe that. However, they are often very racist, sometimes sexist, and regularly homophobic. This is problematic for an outspoken, left leaning queer…
Listen my friends, sometimes quitting is tempting. Resources are tight and the dream is far in the distance. You stay the course but the island is far…
I was away from city the last whole week and that should explain my absence in 100nakedwords. I wasn’t able to keep up my…
I have to make choices these days. I thought it was clear in my head, but when I need to act and close doors the question comes…
New chapter, blank slate.
This is how you should start every single day.
Is this how I start every day? No.
But I give it my best and that is all anyone can do.
What a bore. Writing an essay. How do you start these things off? No idea. Hence this nonsense. Nothing of note so far. I could try painting a rich picture of the darkness weighing on my mind, but this isn’t one of my usual half baked short stories.
We don’t like rules.
‘Lying,’ she said, ‘Is an important skill for kids to learn.’
I thought of all the times I’ve reached for a convenient lie and nodded.
‘It’s a skill we all need to learn, to say the right thing, to smooth over the cracks.’
A group of us gathered at a friend’s house this afternoon for lunch.
Once the food was eaten and people were chatting away, two of us were invited to play a game of Monopoly with the 7-year old daughter of one of the group.