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He leans in to kiss me. I turn away. What the hell? It has changed seasons since this clown ghosted me (ask your kids), and I am now definitely in a committed relationship with Prepdude. Hovercraft was the guy I had been friends with for many years who was divorced and had been helping meContinue reading “Chapter 48: I Kissed A Girl And Didn’t Know It”

Three maniacal females whoop and holler like a bunch of wild banshees (I don’t know what banshees are, but I know we were louder), and run for the ocean, flung bikini tops sailing in the air, sprinting for the water. I feel an intoxicating sense of liberation as we tear for the shoreline, bodies free.Continue reading “Chapter 47: Libation and Liberation”

I walk boldly out the front door of the hotel into the bright sun, shoulders squared, head high. Icy wind whips the tails of my long black coat, and it floats on the wind, my Superhero cape. I am freezing, but don’t care. I am alone, and it feels delicious. Alone Woman, out to seizeContinue reading “Chapter 46: Exile”

It’s 3 am and I can’t find my crown anywhere. I give up and leave. What’s that, you say? You want to know what happened?? We went to a cafe and talked till 3 am, gosh coffee is amazing! No, we didn’t. Want the real story? I enter the hotel bar. Funnydude is waiting. IContinue reading “Chapter 45: How To Backslide In One Easy Step”

I stare slack-jawed as the woman lurches across the stage, elbows flapping, BAWK BAWK BAWK… oh my GOD this is actually happening… Let me backtrack a minute… I’m doing it. I’m living in possibility, and it’s a blast. I said I lost everything, but did I really? I sit back and assess what I have…Continue reading “Chapter 44: Wonder Woman”

Thirteen days. That’s how long it takes, but none of us know this yet. My parents burned their snow shovel and retired in the Southwest with a cactus and a set of golf clubs shortly after I got married. I, of course, was busy all these years with my “calling”, and never got around toContinue reading “Gone Wild Chapter 43: Alone.”

Pendulum: (n) A weight suspended from a pivot so that it can swing freely. When a pendulum is displaced sideways from its resting equilibrium position, it is subject to a restoring force due to gravity that will accelerate it back toward the equilibrium position, and beyond; the higher the pendulum is raised, the more powerContinue reading “Gone Wild Chapter 42: Pendulum Snap”

I see her look away and execute a quick about-face, making a sharp turn into the next aisle. I am having this reaction all over Tiny Town, and I stop going anywhere I don’t absolutely have to go. Familiar faces quickly glance away, stilted “Hi, Monica”‘s from people I know really don’t want to seeContinue reading “PART 2-GONE WILD Chapter 41: Pariah”

I did it. I can’t believe it, but I finally did it. I returned home from my appointment with the good doctor and finally had The Talk with DH. He has seen this coming the entire time we have been together, and he’s not surprised, though of course he is very sad. My guilt isContinue reading “Chapter 40: The Gambler”

Sometimes there is a moment that changes everything…a death, a birth, a piece of news, a shot fired, a disturbance in the Force. I will give you a moment, because shit’s gonna go down. So take a pause. Things are coming up that will offend some of you. This is all the disclaimer you’re gonnaContinue reading “Chapter 39: Pause”