I've been studying writing and literary fiction at the University of Washington for the last two years. I've learned oodles about the craft of writing and story telling and I love it so. It makes my brain hurt and my heart soar and my soul...
She learned about Mother's Day at her preschool. Every year the teachers spend days making special projects for us Mommies. They splatter paint canvases on "Jackson Pollack Day" which they wrap in hand painted dish towels and tie with a bow. The kids fill out...
That road. The one that winds and dips and turns through the trees and comes to a weird, Y-shaped intersection. The one we used to drive down after school in our hand-me-down cars listening to The Cranberries with the windows down. I love that road.
And...
I read somewhere that we are all addicts to whatever releases a hit of dopamine to our brains.
Food and sex are big dopamine triggers because evolutionarily speaking, we need to eat and procreate. We are engineered to derive pleasure from these things. Everyone has heard...
I'm adrift right now, and I know it. It's been almost three months since I filed for divorce and the loneliness has begun to wrap around me like a wet, dense fog.
During the day, I have no shortage of things to do. I have two...
My divorce didn't begin the day the paperwork was filed a few months ago. It didn't even begin the month before that when I KNEW I couldn't do this another day. My divorce began over a year ago. It was a cold December night. I sat...
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Divorce
by Shannon Lell
I got lucky. So lucky.
A couple of months ago, just after my first appearance in family court, when I was at my lowest of lows in life, I also took on a new job. Shortly after, my boss started rumblings about a conference in Vegas....
You know that moment near the end of the Disney movie "Tangled" when Rapunzel's sitting in the tower; it's after her big adventure and now she's sad because she thinks Flynn Ryder has betrayed her trust. Rapunzel has returned to the safety of the only...