Tag: people
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When your dogs fight
There are really few things I care as deeply for, as I do for my dogs. One of them I’ve known since he was 6 weeks old and the other 2 I’ve known for a little over a year. There are people who I have known longer than all my dogs have been alive and […]
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21 days
With the start of the new year, a lot of us are thinking, what we can do to better ourselves? If you’re one of these people, I’m betting you’ve heard it takes 21 days to form a habit. In 1960, a plastic surgeon named Maxwell Maltz published a book called Psycho-Cybernetics in which he noted […]
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You and Me and We and I
You and Me and We and I are unpredictable. You is mostly caring but can be combative at times. Me is closely followed by -lancholy but when Me is alone, Peace can usually be found. When You and Me are together, Peace will stick around. But it can still feel like something is missing. We […]
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Everyone has a code.
I think I may have insulted a really good friend last night. And really more than one, but only one was around to hear what I said. See I’ve been having a difficult time defining success. The fear of failure is ever lurking particularly when you work in journalism and particularly when half your company […]
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Why I don’t want to go to your gender segregated baby shower.
I don’t want to go to your gender segregated baby shower not because of the silly games where I have to pretend I give a shit about the color of your baby room, or because I have to listen to everyone tell me 2014 will be the year I find a husband, or because everyone […]
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I hate writing about love.
Every time I try, I just end up hating myself and shoving the doc away deep in my drive. But too much has happened to ignore it any longer. When you start to feel love whether it’s for a significant other or a friend, you’ve basically just signed up for cancer. It feels so good […]
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I met a woman on a plane
She fumbled with her seat belt. Nervously mashing one piece of the buckle into the other, shaking so vigorously it could have been mistaken for a poor joke. She finally clicked the metallic pieces in. Airline belts are like the dodo bird, unusual in nature and generally useless. Still shaking, she shifted in her tiny, […]
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To less improvident actions
I spent a lot of time thinking about the word improvident the other day. Ironically. There are a number of things we collectively seem to do mindlessly. Drunk driving. Hitting the snooze button. Tying our shoes. Saying, “How are you?” when we don’t mean it. Having children. So what are we thinking about? According to […]
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An explanation of my first 5 seconds of consciousness
On the weekends I have more time to contemplate how much I hate being woken up in the wrong way. To most people my ailment might bear the same characteristics of the minor discomfort they too feel each morning. But for me, it is much more than that. It’s an irrational feeling of abandonment in […]
Jessica Puente 