: About Me

I'm a writer by remembrance. What the heck does that mean, you might think. Well, here's the best explanation I have to offer. I can remember writing as a young child and loving it. I can remember being encouraged by teachers to continue. I can remember finding solace in journals and being vigilant about keeping them. I can remember leaving myself, abandoning what is and was important to me, to attend to the urgencies of the moment. And I can feel the energy of reconnecting to spending time putting pen to paper or digits to keyboard, as the case may be. I'm remembering that I'm a writer.

My passion is ...

living life

I know too much about ...

not sure I know too much about anything

My parents always told me ...

I could be what ever I wanted to be

My childhood ambition ...

to be a journalist

My favorite memory ...

dancing with my children at Christmastime

Why I write ...

to make sense of life

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

whatever strikes my fancy at the moment

My first job ...

babysitting

My best moment ...

yet to be

My inspiration ...

too many to mention

Relationships & Family > Married Life Is marriage really worth it?

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Is marriage really worth it? Worth what pray tell? All the suffering? All the heartache? All the endless concessions, sacrifice and contortions necessary to make your life jive with someone else's? My answer is a resounding and emphatic NO! The only reason we need marriage is because we don't behave well collectively without rules foisted upon us. Marriage as a legal entity serves only two redeeming purposes in my view: It legitimizes children and provides a legal process and protections to force people to behave humanely towards one another when they decide to split. Otherwise, marriage i...

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