Pushing people away? It may have a little something to do with the fear of getting hurt. It may have something to do with expectations. In that case, maybe if we stopped expecting everyone to be perfect, we could love and allow to be loved. Love people for who they are, maybe? Sometimes it’s hard — I should know.
As the character Aibileen says in the The Help, “It hard!”
When celebrating Earth, I’m always reminded of two things: 1) We’re all citizens of this planet, so let us stop calling other humans “illegal.” And 2) Without Earth, there’s no us — let’s do all we can to keep it clean and take better care of it. Astronomer Carl Sagan’s beautiful famous words on Earth,…
I learned about the terminology “Thirst trap” from my brother the other day. (I still laugh at those words, by the way.) All the brave women coming clean about their sexual assault or harassment experience these past weeks made me, once again, think of this social media–especially Instagram–slang. There’s this short story I read on…
Her nights are blue, but not just any blue; it is the darkest of all hues. By her bedside she keeps her booze, drowning her sorrows, awaking the muse. Don’t judge so soon ’cause you would, too, if you walked a mile in her shoes.
It was a four-way intersection. He honked at her as she sped up to turn right. In an unexpected move, he turned left and was then driving behind her. That’s when she rolled down her window, stuck out her hand and gave him the finger. She watched his face in her rear view mirror hoping…
When I was a little girl, I’d hear the word “pecado” (sin) on the daily. According to my elders, everything was a pecado. I was raised in a catholic family, and almost everything I did; everything I wanted, everything I thought, everything I DREAMED of, was considered a sin. So much, that I sometimes was…
