life

  • When I was interviewed on a podcast a few months ago, the podcaster asked me “why do you write erotica? You could write about anything.”  He had been complimenting me on my writing. Erotica and erotic audio were new to him and he was surprised at the quality of work he had encountered (I think…

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  • At Sunset

    It has been a season of ups and downs for me. Tonight I was walking my dog through my vibrant neighbourhood. I walked by kids speaking Farsi; a group of women in lawn chairs on their driveway, drinking coolers and watching their kids play pickleball and blow bubbles in the street; a family of bikers,…

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  • Screenshots

    I should be writing something else right now, but my phone has prompted me to clean out my photos – noting that the number of screenshots is in the thousands – so I started to delete some things.  Doing so was like opening a time capsule of the last few years of my life. I…

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  • The Messy Middle

    She sits down with her coffee in the morning and makes a list. Weed garden, do dishes, get groceries, get your shit together, the list says. The list represents all of the things she will do when she is fully recovered.  When she tells you it has been a hard couple of years, she is…

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  • Let Everything Happen

    It’s a major tenet of Buddhism, as I understand it, that suffering is caused by resistance. Accept what is happening to and around you, and move in strength from there.  So often your brain tells you “No, it can’t be true that X is happening,” when in fact, X is very much happening. X is…

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  • The Thousand Things

    Remember Tumblr? It was the first social media for many of us. I got to see the pretty pictures and the poetry, but luckily skipped the drama.  I couldn’t tell you who wrote it or what the rest of the poem said, but this line from a Tumblr post stays with me even all these…

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