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Review: Girl In The Mirror by Alix B. Golden [Paperback]

August 20, 2012 · 80344 Comments2012-08-20+23%3A00%3A00Knowledge

All Christen Calhoun really wants is to be a successful photographer, love a beautiful woman, and make her father proud, but easier said than done. When she graduates from Savannah State University, a dead end bank job isn’t what she had in mind. She stifles her creativity in bland business suits while her camera collects dust in the corner of her modest studio apartment. Her inability to decipher lust from love often leaves her sexually satiated, but emotionally bereft. When her soul is drained, as well as her bank account, will she take the advice of her father, Pop Calhoun, and... [Read the full story]

Entertainment

Review: Girl In The Mirror by Alix B. Golden [Paperback]

August 20, 2012 · 80344 Comments2012-08-20+23%3A00%3A00Knowledge

Prose

Re-Introducing Rebel & Rene

June 11, 2011 · 69612 CommentsRe-Introducing+Rebel+%26+Rene2011-06-11+18%3A00%3A16Knowledge

I’m not easily impressed, but I was impressed from the start with her ability to captivate an audience with a unique writing style full of prose, poise, and excellent story telling. Her pen carried with it a certain grace that was evident to me, and many others by the looks of her comment section, from the start. While I tend to be long-winded in my writing, she would seemingly get straight to the point, not concerned with beating around the bush unless there was a bush that needed beating. One thing that stood out was how I would never get bored of her posts no matter how many of them I’d... [Read the full story]

Blog

This is not your average post

December 10, 2012 · 8235Leave a CommentThis+is+not+your+average+post2012-12-10+19%3A45%3A05Knowledge

I am not looking for my first time, as that happened years ago. The Tremont Hotel Chicago was situated in an enclave, surrounded by the city view just off of the Magnificent Mile. It was the second time she had come to visit and I was not looking for a good time. I was a lover seeking love. Little did I know I was well on my way from the times when ignorance was predominantly bliss, and I did not even know how good it really felt… yet. I didn’t appreciate the soothing effects it afforded me time and again. Until it became too late for realizations because real life was fervently driving... [Read the full story]

Politics

Can the super committee save the US economy?

November 15, 2011 · 75115 Comments2011-11-15+14%3A50%3A09Knowledge

One of the biggest jokes in Washington is when it comes time to balance the federal budget. It’s when Democrats, Republicans and Independents all take a seat at the proverbial roundtable in a pre-emptive effort to balance or bring some kind of legitimacy and clarity to America’s great big budget. All of this to prevent the government from shutting down. image from canslerconsulting.com They put on a big production staring all the famous political actors, and then go on about the business of deciding which non-defense related discretionary spending programs to freeze or cut. Now,... [Read the full story]

Featured

What Purpose Love Serves

February 26, 2013 · 8271Leave a CommentWhat+Purpose+Love+Serves2013-02-26+20%3A30%3A15Knowledge

The language that follows the path of most resistance whether it’s the marrying type or the look who’s coming to dinner tonight It is not all hype Up on the coffee table we have christened, which found no weary mug needing rest, no I don’t drink coffee, only the warm soft skin of the woman I’ve laid upon and upended Onto the tile floor Where she spills herself all over, and drinks her coffee black. There are fake Roman numerals boasting Across books and journals Numerous real world works roasting blank thoughts by the fire place Where we watch Roots and wade in temporary memories Of... [Read the full story]

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What Purpose Love Serves

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The Panic Attack

Panic attack Disdain when it acts Imposing its will Despair re-enacts It sucks The life Right on out of me In fact: my Spirit saps My teeth chatter My nerves rattle My heart beats faster Self what’s the matter I ask I plead I eventually concede My brain suffice to say Begs for release Won’t shut off my...

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This is not your average post

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Missing The Touch

vi-ol-et.deviantart.com Missing the touch That sent me over the edge Before the parting of ways Came full speed ahead This loss and distance resounds in echoes of sleepless Nights spent Wallowing in tears of long gones and regret This lover knows no better Than to believe she was the best No one else could drape me...

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Love Never Dies

Grief is a motherfucker. It has the tendency to exploit weaknesses, manifested as intense feeling and strong emotion about any and everything. It tends to place these precious vulnerabilities into tiny unkempt boxes, daring you to compartmentalize all that you have been bottling up to that moment. Boxed in like a baby...

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A Need To Fill

I need to write but I’m unsure of what I’m thinking Thoughts in disarray and still not in sync and I hardly understand what I am meant to be feeling So many emotions to sort through – so many broken links No fear of being alone – no darkness concealing No longer afraid of being lonely –...

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Review: Girl In The Mirror by Alix B. Golden [Paperback]

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A Solitary Excursion

Fear of loss is a devastating sort of dread to live with. It consumes… Each person’s healing path is different and unique to that individual. My own has grown out of a basic need to survive this final episode, based not only on personal experience and new-found resources discovered along the way, but on the...

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Living in the Moment

Grief can be a very lonely process… I picked up my cell phone which was wet from my tears. The touch screen had become unresponsive due to the moisture. I’d been on the phone with my mom for the greater part of the evening. She had become my stress release in the weeks prior to and leading up to that...

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One Day at a Time

I took a leave of absence from work to care for my girlfriend full-time when it was deemed that the second round of chemo was no longer working. I’m convinced that it accomplished the exact opposite result in fact. As fate would have it, the day my leave began would be the last night I’d see my darling...

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The Longest Day

The hurt I feel inside seems unbearable but I know it is bearable in its very nature because after all – I am bearing it. I have questioned myself and everything around since the day my girlfriend died. Just last April she was misdiagnosed with stage III breast cancer. It should have been stage IV. We knew it...

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The Other Shoe

Today was my first day back at work since Kelly passed. It was unremarkable, save for a few tears here and there that I did my best to hide while shedding. How insignificant and ordinary everything becomes without your best friend and/or soul mate to help liven up the day. She always managed to do that for me. Heartfelt...

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In Loving Memory of My Girlfriend

My girlfriend, best friend, confidant and soul mate passed away after a valiant fight against an especially aggressive breast cancer. She was the light of my life and many others as she affected each and every one of us in her own special way. She was a vibrant spirit – containing a genuine love for people and...

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Soul Deep

There’s a deep richness in my affinity for you A spiritual arousal of intoxicating sensual You spray me with the odor of my favorite scented brand Your sexy nature arouses each and every one of my senses Every shade of the deepest brown is reflected in your eyes I feel a sense of harmony in knowing that with...

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On Ending The Affair

Intense emotional affairs are the hardest to end. Believing and acknowledging that you are in love with your affair partner can be a repelling thought and one that is difficult to digest when contemplating leaving the affair behind. Emotionally severing ties with an individual that impacts your life on a daily level,...

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To The One Riding Shotgun

What describes this super intense Longing, aching, rumbling feeling Can’t quite concentrate on anything without any meaning Except on how to keep our boat from reeling And how your body is the fruit that I see myself peeling How my spirit is searing With the passion of an electrified charge How your protons push...

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There Are Always Haters

We were on a long walk in the park in late August The lake water shimmered against the sun’s gaze fall was upon us And I stopped to lean against a tree It was the farthest one I could find You leaned against me and a passerby said something like, “It won’t last ladies” as if there was something...

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There Are Warriors Of All Kinds

“You can close your eyes to things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to things you don’t want to feel no matter how hard you try.” That quote is in reference to just some of the things I have been feeling quite deeply lately. I’ve had a lot on my mind, and much...

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Sex Addict Serial Cheater or Just a Jerk

This time of year has historically been a difficult challenge, especially in terms of love and relationships. Over the course of my dating life the transition from fall to winter has not only been seasonal but also deeply emotional for me. I often try to block out the reasons why this occurs. Like I won’t eventually...

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There’s no such thing as the perfect woman

She is beautiful, smart, charismatic, ambitious, spontaneous and sexy in every imagined way. She is everything you have wanted in a woman which for a time was perplexing because progress was slow, if any. She says she is simple, you say she is the least simple woman you have ever known. She is complicated and unique...

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Can the super committee save the US economy?

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The Universe in Discord

They shootin’ rockets at the moon Claim they lookin’ for water Awarding President’s Peace Prizes He ain’t done shit to stop the slaughter Requires a crisis of conscious Why a crisis is upon us But I don’t wish for terrible things Only for them to be spun off us Brought out into the light To...

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