Author: Taylor Davidson
Notes from the Backside of the Mule: A Reflection on Human Systems
<div class=”substack-intro-quote”>It’s funny how a single book, dropped into my lap out of the blue, made me look backward with such curiosity.</div> Being handed a…
Welcome To The Hard Road Cafe
Welcome to the Hard Road Cafe Grab a cup of coffee, pull up a chair, and feel free to read a while. Hard Road Cafe is…
Memoirs From a Parallel Universe
Written in 2016 Sometimes we have to ask ourselves whether we are living in real life or a parallel universe. Writing about it may surprise…
A Funny Thing Happened on The Way To Therapy
Tell me that again I started writing satire about my runaway ex because so many people, including counselors, therapists, and friends, remarked on the innate…
Manipulators & Bad Actors, And I’m Not Talking About Hollywood
Freud is dead, so update your knowledge Not all manipulation is pathologic. We are all manipulators at some point in our lives. Anyone who says…
Prelude To The Mindbender ~ If I’d Only Stayed In Bed
My Mindbender unfolded in all its glory the day before Valentine’s Day. Horror of horrors! The husband I thought I’d known for years ripped off…
Wow! My Very Own Secret Agent Man ~ Who Knew?!
You never know what may happen when you get up in the morning. You may discover something simple, like your dog made a mess on…
All Aboard the Chump Train
Arriving At The Station Decades after I met and married Gorgeous Guy From College in English class, I found myself in a predicament I hadn’t…
Grab Your Dictionary & Follow The Pied Piper
I never thought I’d be saying this, but we may be giving cheaters and runaway spouses a bad rap. Take my situation, for example When…
Why an Aquarius with Scorpio Rising is High-Voltage Trouble
A satirical warning to flee before the short-circuit happens. I’d run like the wind if I had it to do over again. A Quick Satire…
Under The Influence? You Decide
It’s not that other people seduce us. It’s that we so desperately crave the destruction of our own lives.” - Katarina Stoykova-Klemer Rob was a handsome…
Comparison, The Thief of Joy
Like so many rejected spouses who’d walked Hard Road before me, I, too, got caught up in the self-defeating endeavor of comparing my radically altered…
An Object Lesson Even A Cheater Might Understand
Written in 2014 Sometimes it takes a simple object lesson for some folks to ‘get’ what is blatantly apparent to the rest of us. Runaway…
The Crazy Train~ The Illusion of Romantic Rescue
On that midnight train to Georgia? “I’d rather live in his world than live without him in mine.” Aww, aren’t those sweet romantic lyrics? Well, maybe…
A She-Devil Made Him Do It, Right? Well, Maybe Not
Written in 2016 We tend to frame things through our own way of thinking, and having been raised in church, when my husband unexpectedly walked…
When Erma Bombeck Approves It’s a Good Day
My journey into online writing communities During the COVID-19 confinement, I took a hiatus from the WordPress blogosphere to try something new: I joined a…