I now knew how pointless it was trying to pretend that I didn’t still feel something for her. It didn’t make sense to love her. I’d weighed the pros and cons a million times, and the results were always the same: I needed her. She was no good for me, she didn’t want me to …

Indeed.

…this would be the title track. And I really, really, really needed to listen to this song tonight.

In early December 2008, my world was rocked when someone came into my life who completely changed the way I saw the world. And then, said person disappeared without any warning or explanation. I was devastated. Today, some 14 months later, I got my long-overdue heartfelt (and convincing) apology. Better late than never, eh?

I don’t even know who’s reading this anymore… who makes it a point to swing by on occasion, what sort of total strangers might be stopping by. Maybe that matters, and maybe it doesn’t. I just always try to write with my audience in mind, and I really have no idea who that audience is …

It’s only eight days into this new year, but I’d like to pause for just a moment to recognize the really terrific things that have happened in the last eight days. I finally gained almost total independence from you-know-who. PRAISE ALLAH. It came not a moment too soon. I painted two rooms of my apartment …

It’s about time… About time that I feel optimistic about the weeks and months ahead. About time that my books are unpacked and I can feel the calm that always comes when I’m surrounded by words that mean so much to me. About time that I am putting myself out there, meeting new people, allowing …

Here’s an actual excerpt from today’s e-mail exchange with my oh-so-delightful ex-husband. My laptop access card and his cell phone are still joined at the hip on the same AT&T account, and I spent the better part of an hour today trying to separate them. Anyway, here’s the exchange, with absolutely no editing: Liz: You …

I’m an introvert, but there’s no questioning that I crave connection with other people the way some crave air or beer. My local (nashville) circle is clearly too small, because when someone who’s in the circle goes incommunicado, it gets lonely over here. When two people who are in the circle go incommunicado, it stings. …

It was last Sunday, as I was on an airplane that taxi-ed for a solid 20 minutes in Honolulu (where, I swear, I didn’t think there was enough runway-supplementing road to support 20 minutes of taxi-ing), that it occurred to me that I might well die soon. I was on an airplane with the recently …