Tag: relationships
group name: womenwise
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April 06, 2006 08:21 AM EDT --
It's funny what an effect those words can have on you. I expect them from my daughters and my mom. It is understood. They had better miss me, or else!
I have never been one to cultivate many friendships, . . . more
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August 29, 2006 02:29 PM EDT --
I walked in
lacking expectation.
But there you were,
finally,
looking in my direction.
I needed to see into
your clouded window,
recognize who sits
on your dusty throne.
When our eyes met,
a . . . more
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March 30, 2006 08:10 AM EST --
A Middle Aged Women Looks At the Headlines
Sometimes I just want to scream.
Three days before I turn fifty
I wake to find a headline about
actresses entitled "50-ish and Hot".
Please . . . more
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April 23, 2006 05:55 AM EDT --
"To forgive points to an inward feeling, and suppose alienated affection; when we ask forgiveness, we primarily seek the removal of anger" - Merriam Webster Dictionary
Forgiveness is . . . more
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March 19, 2006 12:33 AM EST --
Thick vellum slices me
with its lovely calligraphic
curved smile, announcing in
self-important blue letters
that you and she have wed,
so casually you wed
"on Friday, the twenty-ninth of . . . more
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April 18, 2006 08:11 AM EDT --
I found an old journal this past weekend and made the painful choice to read through it. It is almost twenty years old, and it covers most of two years with a few pages of the years after. Those were some . . . more
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September 18, 2006 02:31 PM EDT --
note: this is a pure, unadulterated ramble. by no means a finished poem, but more of an expectoration of words that were choking me, thoughts that needed release. shit, i couldn't even think of . . . more
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May 12, 2006 08:18 PM EDT --
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. --Tennessee Williams
The straw that breaks the camel's back comes at different times for each of us. For me it is . . . more
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December 21, 2007 07:36 PM EST --
If I could go back in time to the first time I met you, If I knew what I know now,
I would have somehow gotten up the courage and strength to talk to you, in person.
My day was shot, it was different . . . more
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April 18, 2006 11:25 PM EDT --
I was reading another Gather posting by a nice young man named Joshua. In one of his comments he made reference to being open to anyone's single daughter. He seems like a nice enough guy, but rather . . . more
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April 28, 2006 05:29 PM EDT --
For Halloween parties, there are people like myself who come up with simple costumes (I've often been a gypsy since I can use my own clothes, jewelry and a lot of makeup.) Then there are creative . . . more
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May 21, 2006 02:01 PM EDT --
I woke up this morning with a feeling in my gut that I haven't experienced in a very long time. Fear.
It's that awful wrenching, twisted, aching feeling that something - somewhere - is terribly . . . more
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June 08, 2006 04:31 PM EDT --
I am sitting here wondering why some women think they can change the men in their lives?
One scenario goes like this: A smart, savvy woman who has completed her education and advanced in her career . . . more
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May 15, 2006 11:16 AM EDT --
Eschew Obfuscation: Married to the Devil: Rearing His Ugly Head, Part 2
Things were glorious at first. My gut was saying nothing now except that John was the right one. For two months we keep our . . . more
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May 28, 2006 04:28 PM EDT --
"Love is gentle; love is kind…. Love is, love is, love is….. WHAT????
Yes, I truly understand the meaning of unconditional love when it comes to my family, my daughters, my grandkids . . . more
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April 07, 2008 10:58 PM EDT --
Nellie opened her eyes and saw the sky and clouds, then the grass, sky, clouds, grass, sky, clouds, grass, front porch. As she got up she felt her head move in a slow rolling motion. Then her upper body . . . more
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May 12, 2006 11:19 AM EDT --
I hate two-weeks' notice. To make it worse, I gave three weeks. Three weeks for everyone to dump all the work on me they think won't get done when I am gone. Three weeks for word to trickle down . . . more
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July 04, 2006 10:22 AM EDT --
For as much as we hear of physical abandonment in a relationship, we hear little in regard to it's counterpart….emotional abandonment.
Emotional abandonment occurs when one partner emotionally . . . more
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April 05, 2006 07:35 AM EDT --
It is always important to make a good first impression, right? Just last week before I hopped in the car to head to the airport and meet the man I hoped would fall head over heels for me, our corporate . . . more
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March 17, 2006 10:55 PM EST --
Your warm brown hands,
a man's hands, caramel color
fingers absentmindedly
caress mine,
gently moving back and forth
but unaware that I am there,
that my hands are handing you
my heart. . . . more
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