musings 

Lies, Liars and Lying [elephant journal]

Nobody likes a liar – yet the funny thing is we are all guilty of lying at one time or another in our lives. Everybody lies – that is a now famous line of Dr. House from the now defunct, yet very popular TV show, House, MD. My latest piece on elephant journal is all about lies – from our tender beginnings of hearing lies and when we first start to tell them to how they’ve become an almost necessity in life for our own sanity and survival. I hope you…

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on the fly relationships 

Twitterpated Season – The Hook-up Mating Dance

  “Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in the springtime. You begin to get weak in the knees. Your head’s in a whirl. And then you feel light as a feather, and before you know it, you’re walking on air. And then you know what? You’re knocked for a loop, and you completely lose your head!” ~Bambi – Walt Disney Company     Stealing from the movie Bambi, one of my best friends and I call the end of winter and the tender beginning of spring, Twitterpated Season.   During this un-official…

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Valentine's Day Laura Bock writer musings on the fly relationships 

Love and Valentine’s Day

This has not started out as being the best Valentine’s Day I’ve ever had – it’s also not the worst – so I am thankful for that. I did, however, break out in tears on my way into work today; sadly I cannot blame it on PMS, but I can blame it on stress. Buried deep underneath all of my badass and hard shell casing, there is a hopeless romantic slowly suffocating from lack of sensual human contact. Sure, I have sex, at least on an irregular basis, but sex…

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