This Week: Nutella Brownies
As I write this it’s coming towards the end of Friday and I am falling asleep. I don’t know how much longer I can keep my eyes open so this may need to be brief (alternately I may have verbal...
View ArticleWould You Ever Fake It?
Sometimes a little white lie is exactly what’s needed in your relationship. “No, your bum doesn’t look big in that”, “I’ve only slept with this number of people”, etc… Sometimes a little white lie is...
View ArticleGiving Up or Letting Go
A year or so ago I heard a quote that changed my life. Not immediately, but over time, as I absorbed it, thought it through, and embraced it. “There’s an important difference between giving up and...
View ArticleGod Does Not Belong on Social Media
I have a pet peeve. Actually it’s more than a pet peeve. It’s something that has made me filter updates on my Facebook home page. I have even unfriended people because of this. In my opinion, God does...
View ArticleOnline Deception: the One Who Never Was
I have wanted to tell this story for a long time. I’ve told some people in my life about it and I’ve written about it in a newspaper following submitting it for a journalism assignment. It’s not a new...
View ArticleWhat Others Think Of Me
In the last couple of weeks a friend of mine told me they had been secretly hating me for months. I know. What a smack in the guts, right? At first I was hurt, and then I made peace with it and I had a...
View ArticleCan Your Friendship Handle The Truth?
I love my friends. If I didn’t, then I wouldn’t have them in my life, right? Seems pretty straightforward. Do I argue with certain friends sometimes? Absolutely. But we pick ourselves up and move...
View ArticleWhat Bandanna Day Means To Me
When I was 10, I became part of a club that changed the course of my life. I joined the “kids with a parent with cancer” club. Luckily for me at the time, I didn’t truly join until I was 12. You see,...
View ArticleOn People Chasing And Just Doing My Thing
This post was originally published on Tune into Radio Carly and has been republished here with full permission. Until recent years, I was a people chaser. I spent a lot of time wondering why people...
View ArticleThe Innovation of Loneliness
I saw an interesting video the other day called The Innovation of Loneliness. It talks about how, through social media, we are maxing out our social connections to a point where we cannot truly connect...
View ArticleAll That You Can’t Get Back
I’ve lost a lot of people in my life. I’ve had borderline personality disorder as long as I can remember, and one of the symptoms of my illness is an inability to hold on to long term relationships of...
View ArticleGone, But Still Here
Sometimes I feel the hairs on my arms stand up for no reason, or a breath of wind on my face in a still room. Sometimes my skin tingles. Other times I feel an unexplained warmth in my chest and I know...
View ArticleWhen is a Friendship Not a Friendship
I’m going through a bit of an emotional upheaval at the moment with regards to some friends. I’m at that place where I feel like I need to make a decision on whether I want to have certain people in my...
View ArticleYou’re Not Allowed to Name Call
Do you remember when you were a little kid on the playground and it felt awful when someone called you something like ‘poo-poo head’? You’d retaliate by calling them something like ‘nose-picker’ or...
View ArticleDefeating Loneliness
I don’t know if defeat is the right word to use here, because loneliness is something everyone lives with at some point in his or her lives. It is such a human thing to feel the need for meaningful...
View ArticleWhen People Move On
Over the past few years I’ve experienced quite a change. In myself, in my beliefs, in my lifestyle and in the way I relate to others. As a result of that change I have become more outspoken, more firm...
View ArticleThe Platinum Rule
We all know the golden rule, treat others as you wish to be treated, but is there a better way? The answer is Yes. I was recently responding to a conversation with a bunch of bloggers (a gaggle? Gaggle...
View ArticleTuesday Tips: No One is Better Than You
Today's Tip: No one is better than you. You are better than no one. I'd love to say I came up with this tip,...
View ArticleI No Longer Believe In Prince Charming
I was recently doing a bit of cleaning up when I found a note that two of my friends had written to me in...
View ArticleToxic Friends: When You Find Who Really Cares
When your life turns upside down in the blink of an eye, you find out who really cares for you. Last year a member... The post Toxic Friends: When You Find Who Really Cares appeared first on KiKi &...
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