Tag: The Hard Road Cafe
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…
Meeting Romeo: English 111, the Semester I’d Live to Regret
Heading for the fall Early in my first semester of nursing school, I hurriedly rushed into English class and slid into my seat. I quickly…
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…
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…
My Baby Wrote Me A Letter
Setting the record straight on the definition of fearless Joe Cocker once sang about his baby writing him a letter. My ghosting ex, Casper, once…
Who Gets Custody of the Friends After The Divorce?
Written in 2013 A deep cleaning of those in your couple-sphere may be in order The custody count: one for me, one for you. Divorce is…