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Category: Essays

Sexy Cream Puffs

May 30, 2018 by Lia DeLand

If I have to watch one more scene where actors who hardly know each other are humping and bumping and sweating and cooing and mooing and pretending to be excited and to want each other and love each other, I will throw up. Am I the only one? Does anyone else see how bizarre it…

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To Someone Graduating from High School: The Only Way to be Happy

May 29, 2018 by Lia DeLand

I hope that as you move forward you will have triumphs and successes, that you will explore the world, that you will learn and grow, that you will bust out of that confining, crushing straitjacket that you call your comfort zone. But more than anything else, I hope that you will be happy. You are…

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Chewing on Old Bones

February 13, 2018April 14, 2018 by Lia DeLand

I have no idea how much resentment and bitterness I’ve been carrying around, until one day I realize that I am chewing on old bones, rotten, dirty, maggoty, old bones: thinking about old wounds and injustices, remembering the pain, anger, sadness, humiliation, and betrayal, reliving my sense of outrage and powerlessness. My teeth are clenched,…

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Little Girls in Combat Boots

February 10, 2018April 14, 2018 by Lia DeLand

It’s Sunday morning at the fellowship I attend. They sing, light candles, and meditate. They explicitly welcome all ages, races, gender identities, and sexual orientations. They even welcome all religious beliefs. You can be an atheist, and you will be welcomed. This is a great relief for someone like me who believes that the Divine…

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Therapy

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Essays

Essays

  • Sexy Cream Puffs

    May 30, 2018
  • To Someone Graduating from High School: The Only Way to be Happy

    May 29, 2018
  • Chewing on Old Bones

    February 13, 2018
  • Little Girls in Combat Boots

    February 10, 2018

Fiction

Fiction

  • Old Woman Hunting God

    April 6, 2020
  • A Skyful of Briddas

    March 23, 2020
  • A Mangle of Monsters

    January 13, 2019
  • Cinderella Blues

    November 4, 2018

Traveling in all directions

Traveling in All Directions

  • Mist

    March 22, 2018
  • The Wizard

    March 21, 2018
  • Kali

    March 19, 2018
  • Postcards from Italy

    March 17, 2018
  • The Existential Shaman

    February 15, 2018

Recent Posts

  • Old Woman Hunting God

    April 6, 2020
  • A Skyful of Briddas

    March 23, 2020
  • A Mangle of Monsters

    January 13, 2019
  • Cinderella Blues

    November 4, 2018
  • Sexy Cream Puffs

    May 30, 2018

Latest Blog Post: Old Woman Hunting God

by Lia DeLand Old Woman is hunting God. She’s slow because her hip hurts and she’s blind in one eye, but she goes on searching, limping through the long days and cold nights, on and on. Sometimes she finds a glimpse, a glimmer, but she wants More. She wants Light. She asks Owl how to…

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