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I have never been in a relationship on Valentine’s Day. For years, I pined away after girls or dropped notes from “a secret admirer” on doorsteps, but it never led to anything. There were times when I was upset and sad, wondering while life was unfair; why jerks, douchebags and assholes always [...] Read more »
For context, read
Just One Slowdance – Part I
Image by Olga.
Being a wallflower isn’t an easy life, especially when you’ve botched the flower part as badly as I have. Realistically, I am to flowers what a monster truck are to sedans, and you can stick that in your SATs and cram it. Somehow I [...] Read more »
Image by Lawrence Ipsum.
I don’t dance.
Ever.
Period.
Except when no one’s around. I actually do dance then, but it’s not really dancing. And it’s a little unfortunate seeing as I took ballroom dancing classes in early high school. Of course, I didn’t go to ballroom classes because I wanted to learn to dance. The first two [...] Read more »
For context, read
Celestial Rings – Part I.
Sometimes it’s hard to tell by appearance alone what the truth is. Not everyone wearing a Yankees hat is a New Yorker, not everyone wearing a dress is a woman, and not everyone wearing a ring on their finger is married. At least that’s what the Internet told [...] Read more »
In high school, I didn’t really date. I had awkward relationships that were never quite defined, crushes on women who either rejected me outright or kept me waiting until I gave up, and short flurries of physicality that were wonderful, yet left a sour taste in my mouth soon enough after. Asking girls out I [...] Read more »
For context, read
Foreign Exchange – Part I,
Foreign Exchange – Part II,
Foreign Exchange – Part III,
and Foreign Exchange – Part IV.
LoveBite, the hickey machine.
“It’s unthinkable not to love—
you’d have a severe nervous breakdown.”
– Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990)
Beneath the table, I could feel the note wrinkling in my sweaty palm. [...] Read more »
For context, read
Foreign Exchange – Part I,
Foreign Exchange – Part II,
and Foreign Exchange – Part III.
Image by John Osgood.
“I had become, with the approach of night,
once more aware of loneliness and time -
those two companions without whom
no journey can yield us anything.”
– Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990)
It’s quite embarrassing [...] Read more »
For context, read
Foreign Exchange – Part I,
and Foreign Exchange – Part II.
“The appalling thing is the degree of charity
women are capable of. You see it all the time…
love lavished on absolute fools. Love’s a charity
ward, you know.”
– Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990)
There was no doubt he was a pretty boy. He [...] Read more »
For context, read
Foreign Exchange – Part I.
“History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.”
– Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990)
There are plenty of people who have written about the “Friend Zone” and the problems therein. There are essays by men (many, many essays), essays by women (a few), an instruction manual for escaping, [...] Read more »
Image by CloudDust.
“Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.”
-Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990)
The above is a quote from Lawrence Durrell. I’m not sure I’ve ever read anything else by him. I’m not even sure who he is or was. That wouldn’t be quite so embarrassing if it weren’t the quote situated next to my picture [...] Read more »