Then one October evening, I was lying on my bedroom floor ruffling Cody’s abundant fur, on the phone with an easy-going man named John. After many weeks, I’d chosen his profile out of the hundred-plus I’d read. He was funny and intelligent and unapologetic about wanting a long-ter...
Old friends who were slipping further and further away as we simply got older now seemed to have vanished altogether as the killer virus made its rounds. It takes at least some work to keep your “keeper” friends kept, so to speak, and that’s under ideal conditions. Not American conditi...
This is when you might feel overly dependent on a relationship, have low self-esteem and experience anxiety. So, what can you do when you feel yourself slipping into this pattern of emotional outbursts, self-doubt and dependency? Take time to self-reflect on your own life goals and ambition...
pretending death doesn’t exist, is the abnormal state. I’d hate to believe humanity’s fate is to walk shadowed with grief, sorrow slipping into us painlessly like milk down a gavage tube to a premature baby’s stomach. But on our hospital visits for John’s chest X-...
I battled to stop myself slipping into staggery walking too often or for too long – it can become a habit once you give in to it especially when you are running alone. By the time I reached the Rock City aid station I was feeling dizzy and getting cold flashes down my arms and ...
Mink Max had hers on the porch, on a perch of dried cloth. My mother didn't let her come inside. I was four when Rouge brought forth her litter. I named each kitten: Puffy, Winky, Glitter. I was eight when Max grew swollen-large. ...
210. “Part of the journey in life is slipping and falling along the way; in these times, true friends are the ones who pick you up and dust you off.”― Ken Poirot Fake Friends Quotes About Being Betrayed 211. “Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weak...
[but was subsequently delayed], but the staff member meeting us was excellent and very helpful. The first problem, however, that we had was when my wife was being assisted by the ground staff into her SilkAir aircraft seat. One of the ground staff called out that Hilary was slipping from...
“Death” and Death wasn’t too crazy about changing their name. As the rejection letters continued to pour in, their dreams of success started slipping away. So they moved out of Detroit and gave it another go only to hit the same road blocks before going their separate ways. Decades go...
This is pretty funny. Even more so when you consider all the WPs who are here in Korea teaching English. Most I have found though are not from the US but are Canadians. onJanuary 12, 2009 at 9:05 pmAtlantan Dude you are most certainly white. In the words of the Dead Milkmen “It...