July 22, 2013 - As I was walking my dog, my mind started to drift and, before I knew it, I was revisiting familiar, dark territory. I started making a mental list of the loose ends I had to tie up before I could kill myself. I’m not sure what triggered the thoughts. I had …
My Shitty Week
July 12, 2013 - Last week I came back from vacation rejuvenated and ready to take on anything that life would throw at me. I was still basking in the afterglow of a self-empowerment conference. I was holding on to my mantras of kindness and positivity and the lessons I learned. With each passing day, I …
How I Spent My Summer Vacation
July 3, 2013 - When I was young, the one thing teachers would always ask us to do on the first day back at school in September was to write a short story about what we did on our summer vacation. I never really had anything "exciting" to write about - no camping trips or …
You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness….
October 2012 - It’s been a month since I moved out. I had been treating the whole process like an adventure since even before I moved – looking forward to being on my own, making my own decisions about things – just breathing and finding myself. I had begun to forget who I was. I was …
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Righting the Wrong
August 12, 2008 It had been a long time coming. She knew from the beginning that he was the wrong guy for her. She even tried to break up with him about 3 months into the relationship. She told him that he should find somebody else because she only wanted to change him and that wasn’t how …
Loyalty
June 10, 2011 - I had lunch with a friend recently and, during the course of our meal, he told me a story from his childhood about friendship and what loyalty meant to him. My friend’s mom had just remarried. Shortly after the remarriage, the family fell on hard times and had to move …
Distant Sun
April 14, 2008 It was an evening like every other. We would meet after work, have dinner and then go to “our spot” and talk. “Our spot” was near the local wharf. There was a bench off to the side - near the water. We started going for walks after dinner and, on one of our walks, we followed …
July 10, 2007
July 10, 2007 It’s the second week of my vacation, I can’t remember the last time that I was this relaxed. I’m still stressed about work but not like I was before. Today I was going to go to the gym but decided to lay in bed and “be a slug”. I figured that I’d …
Diary of a DOW 