This grief feels thicker somehow. There’s no one here but me, rattling about and stepping over shadows of invisible cats, rewriting the script of my daily life.
Equality in Love
Marriage equality for all has been on the political agenda in Australia since the last Federal election. Isn’t it a great thing that people are in love and want to get married, to commit to one another and form stable relationships? Apparently not! Gay people in Australia are seeking the right to marry but unfortunately […]
Dads Are Supposed to Know What They Are Doing, Right?
In a series of vignettes, both humorous and tender, writer Gab Halasz sketches the special relationship between a slightly eccentric but loving father and a smart, independent-minded daughter.
Healing in a Virtual Village – 3
A series of intimate sexual relationships that produce no children would be disastrous in any traditional culture. This may well be a source of unacknowledged emotional stress in our own society.
Are the Stories We Have About Marriage Keeping up with Reality?
When I consider the landscape today – in the US anyway – those social/cultural pressures are lessened, and the romantic “love-based” model of relationships is the norm. More and more folks are also ambivalent about, or completely against, the idea of life-long marriage to a single partner. This, even as the tide is beginning to shift towards freedom for GBLTQ folks to get married.
Saying Good-Bye, Again
Guest Author Carole Poppleton-Schrading shares a daughter’s struggle to make peace with an alcoholic parent.
An Award for Being Herself
If I had remained invisible the truth would stay hidden and I couldn’t allow that ~ Lana Wachowski /Cloud Atlas One of the most basic assumptions in this life as a humans is this binary opposition thing we call boy and girl. We take it for granted. When our children are born, they are immediately […]
Norman – In Memoriam
When I was a child, there was a man in my life that taught me about integrity, honour and basic human decency. He taught me that a man’s greatest strength was his word and his ability, his determination, to live by it. As a child being raised by a single mother, I found in this […]
Healing in a Virtual Village – 2
Short-term uncommitted sexual relationships would have resulted in poor reproductive success in ancestral village environments, and thus a propensity for them, at least among women, would have been selected against in an evolutionary sense. Some of the grief and depression people experience today when intimate relationships fail may be hard-wired.
Just Too Busy
Sometimes a friend will say the words indicating they want to know about your life, but their actions indicate differently.
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