My friend Kim and I have been meeting every Tuesday (when possible – sometimes not at all, other weeks on different days, depending on schedules.  We do what we can when we can, get off my back!) at a coffee shop where we attempt writing.  Sometimes we spend several minutes to an hour of our meeting talking about our lives and respective relationships.  Other times we open our laptops and do our best to put some words to the page.
You can see how productive this has made me.
I have enjoyed …

Happy New Year!!
I have to say, 2012 was hard but it was also one of the best years I’ve ever had.  Valerie and I really made the most out of it, especially considering we continue our weekly jaunts up and down the freeway between Portland and Seattle.  We played at the ocean, camped, went fishing, enjoyed Oregon’s high desert, spent time with our families and friends, floated in lakes, relaxed along rivers and crafted like maniacs.
It seems as if, little by little, things are settling down and falling into place. …

I have divorce on the brain.
On the 24th, Janie and I had a court date to finalize the dissolution of our partnership.  Three months ago I finally got around to filing the papers to get this process rolling, postponing the inevitable out of laziness or disinterest, and I am proud to say that we have crossed the finish line.  DIVORCED.
You should have been there the day I told Valerie I was, technically, still married.  AWKWARD!
The truth is that I felt not-married the moment I sat on the couch in the …

It’s been so long since I’ve sat in front of the computer really trying to write.  It feels almost like I’ve forgotten how this works…what my creative process looks like.  It’s going to take me a while to figure out what I’m supposed to be doing here now.  Ever the impatient one, I’m already frustrated with not being able to just come here and let go.
So much has changed the last year and a half and sometimes I look back at the way things used to be and it feels …

When I landed in Seattle after coming home from vacation, I quite literally burst into tears and cried.  I could not control myself.  I could not calm myself down.  What I know now is that I was absolutely exhausted, not from travel, but from spending every minute of every day for months just trying to keep it together.  To get better.  To feel more like myself.
I was determined to power through it.  I come from a long line of people who eschew the assistance of others so that we may …