Swagger with grace

Tania

When I first started my career, I learned a very valuable lesson about working with difficult youth. I was taught that I should think about youth like an ATM machine and I should never try to take out more than I put in. By far that has been the best lesson that I learned about my work and oddly about any relationship, especially those annoyingly intense intimate ones.

Always Against the Odds

First deficit, I am a woman who loves to take care of people. Second, I am independent and like to do things for myself. Third, I can spend years in the emotional deprivation zone and function just fine. Hell, I was married in one for 16 years. So interestingly enough it is quite easy for someone like me to become more like an emotional soup kitchen for people who can’t or won’t invest anything into what I need or want and that means disaster eventually.

Tania

This blog has been the hardest one that I have attempted to write yet. I have started and re-started this more times than I can care to count. I have drove for hours trying to find the perfect words to describe the perfect man. There are so many things that he has taught me over the years of knowing him and so many wonderful things that I will likely never share but I can honestly say that I had the opportunity to chill with the most amazing man I have ever met. He rocked my world on a thousand levels and for everything that he ever did for me, he would tell you he did nothing. Did I mention he was also the most humble loud mouth I ever met too?

Two Lost Souls

Jenn

The greatest love story is one that never really occurred.  Perhaps all greatness in life is merely myths told by wordsmiths; artists creating scenarios and events that never have or will occur.  Perhaps the depth of human understanding comes from the “what if” of life.  What if I could change it all over, what if I could truly create my life’s circumstances, add a soundtrack and watch the fireworks as the greatest love story that never really happened occurs.  What if I tell you this story……..

On a non-descriptive day, in a non-descriptive venue, she met the man of her dreams.  What she saw was a young man in his thirties, curly brown hair, tall, thin but fit, and that smile; the smile she will now remember for the rest of her life.  This smile melts tension away better than a two hour massage.  The smile that deceives one into thinking they are special and important.  The smile brings equal amounts of joy and pain; it was the smile that drew her to him.

Tania

Pitbull’s translation: I got something to keep you hooked

Ok literally it means “An intangible quality that makes something distinct or attractive.” And the question I have been asked a lot lately is how do I do it? How is it that people will go to the ends of the Earth to help me? Why are men offering to pay for trips all over the world, buy me new appliances or whatever weirdly offensive act of kindness? (ever hear of a steak dinner?) I have asked myself that question for a long time and the answer is simple yet profound. Sinister yet pure. And it always boils down to one thing….How you play your cards and what you are playing for (Yes, here I go again, INTENTION).

The Real Happily Ever After