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Writer, mother, lover of coffee and all things chocolate, world traveling adventurer, and believer in perfect love. Hoping to create beauty to leave behind when I am gone.

• Who Would Want To Be A Wife?

  By Lilly on April 7, 2022 • ( 0 )

       In Judy Brady’s article, “I Want a Wife,” she concludes with the question, “My God, who wouldn’t want a wife?” But after reading the article, which lists the numerous examples of all that is expected of wives, and… Read More ›

• Holding My Breath: What It Means to Be a Woman

  By Lilly on June 11, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  I am a woman. But, what does that mean? What does it even mean to be a woman? I’ve attempted to come up with a nice, concise definition, and yet I have been unable to. This must certainly be because… Read More ›

• I Said I Loved Him; I Said Goodbye

  By Lilly on January 3, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  I will NOT be that woman. You know, the one who makes all the wrong choices and then takes on the role of victim? No thank you. Accountability. Am I right ladies? I made the wrong choice in marrying my… Read More ›

• A Wait and See

  By Lilly on December 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Another eve of the New Year is upon us. 2018 was a year spent on a roller coaster ride with a gentlemen that has ended with a wait and see. A wait and see on his end. As I reflect… Read More ›

• The Antidote to Frustration

  By Lilly on December 30, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  I am listening to Tony Robins right now. He’s my occasional guy. Right now, with the new year fast approaching, I’ve rekindled our relationship. He is asking me to write down any given emotions I feel in a week. Can… Read More ›

• From Deconstruction to Marxism: Analyzing A Good Man is Hard to Find

  By Lilly on December 30, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Why literary theory? Flannery O’Connor sums it up best in her short story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” when she writes, “It’s some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it’s others has… Read More ›

• Refresh, Refresh

  By Lilly on December 29, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  In Benjamin Percy’s short story, “Refresh, Refresh,” Percy powerfully captures the urgency of a young, fatherless boy searching for his father: “[O]n this bike I could ride and ride and ride, away from here, up and over the Cascades, through… Read More ›

• An In-Between Love

  By Lilly on December 29, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  I said good bye. But he said it was not good bye. That is what he said. And so I am waiting on whatever it is that is not good bye. What is it? What is it that compels us… Read More ›

• Jumping In

  By Lilly on April 16, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Here in the cabin. On the lake. We jumped in. All of us. Well, almost all of us. Me: If you don’t suffer it’s not good. Carol: Tame the wild elephant. I am the wild elephant. Lav: Soften the edges…. Read More ›

• The Forever Winter

  By Lilly on April 16, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  It should be springtime. New life, fresh colors, the smell of blossoms, the warm breeze… Life! Joy! New beginnings!! And yet… And yet… And yet the sun is still hiding and the sky is still stubbornly somber. The trees stand… Read More ›