February 2012
“Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun...”
– Nicole Krauss, The History Of Love
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I brought two friends together today that hadn’t spoken in months. It’s been a good day.
“If every life is a river, then it’s little wonder that we do not even...”
– Alice Hoffmann, Incantation
I’m receiving messages from parents on Twitter almost daily regarding Autism. Mostly thanking me for speaking about it. A few had approached to ask about their own kids and how they feared they might be on the spectrum too, and have been diagnosed. We should never underestimate how much we can help others when we talk about painful/hard circumstances in our lives. In the case of Autism it...
The Libertines - Music When The Lights Go Out
I think I mentioned before that when I was in my early Twenties I DJ’d in a nightclub. I was the only female. One day the owner bought a new sportscar and approached me saying that I was welcome to use it whenever I liked and winked. After that he was all about me, watching me like a hawk…in the dirty sense. It was quite off-putting because on top it being super creepy and...
I enjoy proving people wrong.
Yes, I can endure insults. They hurt for a little while, I’m only human. But I think my strength will always lie in not allowing someone to underestimate me.
I’m small on the outside…but a giant on the inside.
“At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen....”
– Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
I love this song. I heard it over the speakers in...
So yeah…
He got to me. But only for about five minutes. And when he left I cried. It’s okay, I didn’t do it in front of him.
I don’t want to see this person again. End of.
I have to see my Ex-husband today. I’ll admit that I am anxious about this. He has a way of making me crumble, as strong as I am. There’s one thing about people that know everything about you…they’re aware of which buttons to push to send you over the edge. I just have to overlook this and not allow him to see that I’m affected or he wins.
Bullies…ay, not a...
I feel like doing something bizarre today. It’s been a while. I’m not sure what but life lacks excitement and I have to remedy that.
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The Beauty In The Broken: Condensed Version Of... →
notmygenius:
You know…your sobstories have just about reached their expiration date. Your effort to pull out your victim card every chance you get in hopes that maybe they will reach the ears of me is just about as much of a waste of time as my association with you has ever been.
You wanted me to hear…
I am reblogging this because it made me cry out of sheer empowerment. God bless...
I just read this name somewhere….’Helder’. It made me giggle. When I was 13 a new boy came to our school and he could barely speak English….but was really pretty. I was all like “Yeah, so what? You’re nice to look at. Big deal.”. Until we went to our Computer Studies class and the teacher told him to sit next to me because he was Portuguese and I was the...
Mixed Tapes
They were so goddamn cheesy. But at the same time it was kind of thrilling to wonder what the next song might be…what that girl or guy might say to you in a song that they couldn’t to your face. It was something so unique to our Generation X. Music is fantastical.
Dusty Springfield - You Don’t Own Me
Saw them years ago in England. I love the Indie...
It’s almost 7pm and the sun is only just setting here, usually it’s 4. You have no idea how happy this makes me. Summer is coming….
The great thing about having a child with Autism who is non-verbal is relying on other ways to communicate. Your senses fall into play and you become astutely aware of not only his but also everyone’s else’s body language and signals. Words are beautiful but actions are….just so much more revealing.
Marilyn Monroe bores me on so many levels. Somehow I can’t sympathise. Why do people feel the need to idolise her? She’s a woman that would fuck your husband and then cry that nobody loves her. Come oooooon…
You do it to yourself.