The Weight of Being a Man When my TV was “lost” in a move in 2019, I just never replaced it. I’ll admit I was a little smug about it for years. And even before that, in the early 2000s, I skipped cable entirely. Four channels on a good day, and I liked it fine….
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Courtesan Continuing Education
Courtesan Continuing Education “The respectable women envied her freedom and called it scandal. She called it Tuesday.” – Author Unknown There’s a version of this life that looks, from the outside, like one long Tuesday. No commute. No boss. No performance review. What the outside doesn’t see is the quiet industry underneath – the reading,…
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And still I walk
You do not walk the Camino to find yourself. You walk the Camino to lose yourself. Eight years ago I was living in a neighboring country. I had made every change I could think to make – or so I told myself. I had left Sydney. The version of her who was comfortably kept, who…
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What’s Real?
What’s Real? So much of what reaches us online has been shaped before it arrives – data, information, images, all passing through some filter or another before they land in front of us. The photos you see on this site are recent, and I was deliberate about that. When I got them back from my…
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Mile Markers
Mile Markers There is a joke that circulates in certain circles – cynical, reductive, and not entirely without wit – that what a man pays for in this arrangement is not the company itself, but the goodbye. That the transaction is, at its core, a clean exit. No entanglement. No obligation. She leaves, and that…