Down-n-Dirty Blog on Relationships

Published by admin on February 6, 2019

I of the Storm

  Inside me natives wagering on man’s extinction   Inside me angels waiting for someone to believe   Inside me a million dead things live   Inside me muffled screams of innocents gut my faith   Inside me oceanic fury cause the gods to pause   Inside me earth trembling feverish   Inside me calm…

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Published by admin on August 15, 2018

Blood Tracks

Published by admin on July 30, 2018

Explorations of Pain

  Typed on a Smith Corona electric typewriter, circa 1970.   www.alexobed.com

Published by admin on May 3, 2017

the depths

  …they pull me. Perhaps it was because, late one night at the age of 7, my family was practically crushed like an aluminum can after a drunk driver ran us off the road, coming home from a friend’s Chuck E. Cheese birthday soiree. Everyone was fine–except me. I couldn’t walk the next day. I had…

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Published by admin on November 20, 2015

A Field Guide to Leaving the Person You Love

How the fuck do you leave the person you love? I realize that I’m assuming that you may actually want to leave the person that you love. But if you’re in a relationship and struggling that freaking much (you know who you are), then you absolutely should leave. Let’s start by getting all the reasons that you shouldn’t leave out on the…

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Published by admin on November 3, 2015

The Answer is More Crazy, Not Less

I used to try to hide my crazy. Maybe we all do. Who wants to look like an emotional wreck? Who wants to get defensive at a relatively benign comment that is directed your way, or become overly sensitive because someone didn’t respond to you the way that you wanted? Nobody wants to appear these…

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