I’ve thought a time or two about quitting this.  I don’t need to sing to you, to string words together that aren’t half as good as what I could put down elsewhere, to tell you the story of my life as though its saying was worth the breath.  I don’t know that it is.  I [...]

I’ve deleted two posts trying to write this down.  I’ve had trouble concentrating late at night and I have trouble sleeping–though the latter’s nothing new.  I feel like I’ve successfully compartmentalized myself.  I feel like I’m in a Murakami novel.  I’ve put my heart and brain away in jars and I take them down from [...]

Mostly a post of miscellany, but with this little kernel:  a long, long time ago I diagnosed myself with a deep need to appease the father figures in my life.  My dad was absent or lacking through a part of my childhood, and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to put these two things together*.  [...]