My fiance's adult children have finally flown the coop and I now have some spare room to unload my TWO storage units. I'm not yet halfway there, and already this is turning into quite a spiritual experience. All of these things are memories I have not laid eyes on in a year and a half - 18 years of 'things' packed into 3 weeks of a tumultuous, stressful, and rushed moved, under the constant knowledge of bugged phones, the ex watching the house and harrassing me with every load I carried out... read more

Paint a scarlet letter on me – I had an affair. I had been married for nearly 18 years, and one day I ran into an old flame from 23 years prior. We first rekindled our friendship. My children loved him. My grand nephew (whom we had ‘rescued’ from his crack-whore mother and was living with us at the time) loved him. After some time, I remembered how much I loved him, too.

It wasn’t planned. But it happened. I could spend many pages recanting all of the should’s and should not’s of ... read more