Letters from a friend
Last night, I got my first piece of hate mail. My overly-profane, “Smartassiness”-categorized rant about grocery shopping on a weekend afternoon was powerful enough to terminate a friendship. First, I was flabbergasted. Then, I was sad. Then, I got angry. I have been debating whether to say anything here, but I write this blog as [...]
A great discovery
I was at Target yesterday with Mom, browsing the titles on $5 DVDs. There wasn’t much of interest, but I noticed one title in the corner of the display.
“Oh, look,” I said. “Sense and Sensibility.”
A woman who had just passed us on her way out of the section stopped at the sound of my voice [...]
Running down a dream
Ever have one of those dreams about unfinished business in your past? You know, like the one where you realize it’s the end of the semester, final exams are here, and you haven’t attended one class? You freak about the prospect of flunking school, only to wake up to the realization that, yes, Diz, you [...]
They say you were something in those formative years
You know how your most formative years are supposed to be your first five? How everything experienced in that brief moment of your life is to blame for who you are? That’s a lot of pressure for your newly formed brain.
I feel like these are my formative years. Perhaps I’m using the wrong word for [...]
Gimme some compassion
Previously, on barelymyself.com…
Diz tied truth to compassion. TLo commented “What do you mean, woman?” Diz pondered blogging her answer.
And now, an all new blog at barelymyself.com…
I am beginning to think that finding your truth has to involve compassion - not least of all towards yourself. Depending on what kind of life you’ve lead, you may [...]
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