Six Generations of First Born Women

Like Clinton I could compartmentalize. Just because I confessed to RG about my other lovers doesn't mean I had the courage to immediately tell all to everyone who cared about me. I was afraid of loosing their love. Existential nerve is how he described it, this ability he had that most attracted me... Sign in to see full entry.

Life was easier when I lied and cheated like a normal person.Adding RG to my list of current intimate relationships was perfect. Now I had true happiness,nearly Nirvana. Three wonderful men. People have such unrealistic expectations of each other. Look at yourself. Are you anybody's dream lover?... Sign in to see full entry.

The blackened hulks of cars, torched in the night in the alley behind my building was bad enough, but sharing one industrial sink, an ancient bath tub and one toilet at the end of a long hall with 6 unrelated people started to wear on me. In the beginning, roughing it in an industrial space was a... Sign in to see full entry.

"Mom, you don't have any women friends!!!!!". It is an accusation from my daughter. She's a teenager at this point. Whoa! I think, that's not true, and I try to think of one. But she's right. At the time she said this it startled me. Even during my married years, my husband and I socialized as a... Sign in to see full entry.

Can a person have too much energy? You would think that having two lovers, with very different characters plus an occasional side bar transgression, plus a full time job, plus a dead marriage but no divorce, plus a child, plus a career as an artist would be enough for any 30 something woman. But it... Sign in to see full entry.