A year ago on this date (11/17) I completed my first race, the Philadelphia Half Marathon. It was cold, it was early, it was one of those mornings when the sun was bright and you could see your breath in the air. I was nervous, the wait to start was exciting and long. There’s an…
Category: Relationships
Thoughts and Readings on Being in a Healthy Relationship
INTERTWINED
When you truly connect with another human being, you reach a strange physical, emotional, and mental place where you’re not quite sure where you begin and where they end. You’re lives and being become intertwined. Your motives for wanting good for them and wanting good things for you become one and the same. Their needs…
BE THE PERSON YOU WANT TO FIND
Well before I met my ex-fiancee, B, I had spent a lot of time dating. I had a few relationships that were intense for a few months before crashing in their own special way. I also had a lot of one-off dates as well as a handful of things that fell in the 2 or…
SO IT GOES.
“When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in that particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead…
TIME TOGETHER, TIME APART
I went out with my friend Hank tonight. We grabbed pizza and beers in New Hope. Hank was coming down from a week of live shows. His brain was mush and he needed calm. He also needs to get back in to domestic mode. His partner, Kasia, returns from an extended (as in seven week)…