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A Lusty Update

Posted on July 9, 2008

Get your minds out of the gutter. If you aren’t a regular reader you have no way of knowing that I don’t write about lust, the boudoir is the one thing that is off limits here at The Wink. You might catch me cussing, I may on occasion bitch, and every once in a great while I will say something that I will live to regret, but after sharing everything from naked belly shots and mortifying maternity underwear stories to raw admissions of failure, I feel pretty ok keeping my-still-lusty-marriage private. Wow, so off track. Back to the update on lust, more specifically our summer of lust, the object of lust being…a swing-set cum play structure thing. Our plan had been to buy a…

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Remember the person who…

Posted on July 8, 2008

Do you remember a person, maybe it was a neighbor, maybe a teacher, who did something that forever changed your life? I remember Mrs. Ingman crossing the street and holding me, I was maybe 7 years old, as I vomited again and again on the sidewalk below or hilltop home. It didn’t form who I’ve become, but it has stayed with me, a reminder that we all want to be held, we all fear things and that in those moments of fear, a little comfort can go a long way. Today over on Blog Nosh there is a post I picked out by a great writer named Jack. The post is about courage and conviction. I really found it, and subsequent posts by Jack,…

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