You wake up in the morning with the same stubborn thought you do every morning” Nobody likes me. It is Monday morning and you have spent yet another weekend at home doing nothing better than watching reality television. The dog is eager to be walked and is wagging her tail in… Read full post »

I spent a good part of my day today reading Augusten Burroughs' latest book How to_________. For several years now I have adopted Ray Bradbury's disdain of self-help books. They are not literature and should never be considered so. But once again life had other plans. A.B.'s father is a sociopath… Read full post »

 I dread this day all year. My mother died when I was 23 after a short, painful battle with live cancer. Her skin was yellow and she looked nothing like the robust woman she once was. Towards the end she was particularly hostile to me. She asked me to not visit… Read full post »

I want to make it clear, I hate 50 Shades of Grey. My friend Lacey loves it and encouraged me to read it. The writing was so awful that I still haven't made it past page five. So when I heard she was having a book signing I jumped at the… Read full post »

All I ever wanted was for my mother to be happy, my father is a whole other topic. You may know my father as Enrique Lisbon, one of the top baseball picks from Cuba in the 1970s, a coach from Kendall University in the 80s, and a failed reality star in… Read full post »

It is raining in Miami as is usual for this time of year. What is so unusual is how blue I am because of it. What's going on? Too much internally and not much externally.  School is ending soon and then I am off for two months in London with my… Read full post »

Trying to capture and describe a perfect kiss. Please tell me what you think: good, bad or ugly. 

I lean into him slowly and press my mouth against his. Our lips meet for a moment and he opens my mouth with his tongue. At first he is timid as our… Read full post »

Renee wanted just one more wild weekend before she and Ramon tried for a baby. .A few party favors, champagne and a catered dinner party that she would claim she cooked. They married after two months of exclusive dating and she was quite fond of bragging about that. She would bore/… Read full post »

I learned a very important lesson the past several weeks: do not internalize assholes.

          Lately, I have had some conflict with a near stranger. He has been harassing me and calling different people in my life. This man gave me false information an… Read full post »

     The other day I was walking my dog in a park she is not supposed to be in.  I took her there anyways bc I know what the  men in tank tops and too much cologne in the park really do deep in the woods so no one bothers me. … Read full post »

The quality you like best in a man/woman:  Intelligence and arrogance.

Your main flaw:  I don’t always understand where people are coming from if I think they have had an easy life.   

Ideal job:  A bestselling novelist 

Beloved movie:  Th/… Read full post »

"You can be addicted to a certain kind of sadness."

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Don't be a guy. The world is full of guys. Be a man.

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I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.                       … Read full post »

"We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam.” Ray Bradury 451 

The older I get, the more I realize how young I used to be.  I was bitter in my twenties, when youth and cynicism are… Read full post »

We are raised to see only the good in people. As Americans, we believe in forgiveness so much that we try to do it almost instantly after an apology is given. If a person offers an apology and it is not immediately accepted the aggressors's eyes, the victim deserved the crime… Read full post »

Tomorrow is my 34th birthday and I may be coming around to accepting myself just the way I am. I went to Green Street Cafe in Coconut Grove yesterday and hogged out. In the middle of the night I actually had to go and throw up I was so full. Lacy… Read full post »

I asked myself a v. simple question this morning: Can I and do I want to live my life without conflict?

          Saturday morning, I am eager to get up and finish my book editing. I put my laundry and the dog in my car to do a few quick errands. On… Read full post »

    I was getting a facial this morning thinking over my recent non-rejection rejection. When I break up with someone I erase their texts, put away their clothes (generally as we get older we know when it is coming and start clearing out), and light a candle for renewed hope. My… Read full post »

Oh boy. In my last post I was excited about a man named G. He spent a sexless night at my house. I woke up snuggled into him and vowed just to let things be. He let me know he was really busy at work and being that we are in… Read full post »

         For the first time in years I feel hopeful. Not in a everything, everywhere is going to be just fabulous, but a maybe I have learned a few lessons. In life we are supposedly doomed to repeat patterns and behaviors until we reach awareness. I like to th… Read full post »

On this Wiccan New Year I want to change my story. We each tell each ourselves the same thing over and over again. I remember when The Secret came out and it became a new way to be judgmental about each other.  Instead of things being bad luck, we had individually… Read full post »

If you really want to know about it there was a ghost in my house. He was about 154 years old and his name was Thomas. I moved into my house 6 years ago and immediately felt like I was being watched. But since every new place is somewhat spooky, I… Read full post »

Turning the other cheek has never been a strong point for me. I used to get angry and scream at my annoyers, now I just walk away not wanting to disrupt my inner peace. Herein lays the problem in full: I no longer want to best besties with a girl I… Read full post »

Oh Anne, what have you done now? It was so shocking 12 years ago when you went back to your childhood religion of Catholicism.. Your bisexual vampires were cast aside and the community embraced you. As an adult Catholic you knew what you are getting into. It is a hard-lined religion… Read full post »