by Valerie Sussman | Apr 10, 2019 | Explorations, Excavations, Extractions, and Expressions from My Midlife Moltdown, Ladies … Start Your Engines…We’re on a ROAR!, Random Acts of Baggage
By the time my husband moved out for the fourth (and final) time I was already running on empty. I had completely lost myself in the course of an emotionally abusive marriage while raising three sons, working as a doctor, and, oh yeah—striving for perfection. I had...
by Valerie Sussman | Nov 5, 2018 | Explorations, Excavations, Extractions, and Expressions from My Midlife Moltdown, Ladies … Start Your Engines…We’re on a ROAR!, Random Acts of Baggage
“Do it all, Have it all,” Said society’s liars. We women, we bought it (Such gullible buyers.) We climbed up the ladder, Wiped out (fucking tired) To the rope licked by flames, Bravely walking the wire. We fought for our balance (“Stay out of the fire!”) Burned our...
by Valerie Sussman | Nov 2, 2018 | Explorations, Excavations, Extractions, and Expressions from My Midlife Moltdown, Ladies … Start Your Engines…We’re on a ROAR!, Random Acts of Baggage
This is my story. It is a story about stories I tell myself. It’s a piece of… Story. PART ONE: “A rose is a rose is a rose…” But… What if that rose is buried under shitloads of shit? Is it still a rose? Is it a stinking rose? Is it buried treasure? Or… Is it just…...
by Valerie Sussman | Oct 31, 2018 | Explorations, Excavations, Extractions, and Expressions from My Midlife Moltdown, Random Acts of Baggage
Moral of the story: If you over-give, you WILL be over-taken. And taken over. (With apologies— and thanks— to my hero, Shel Silverstein)
by Valerie Sussman | Oct 30, 2018 | Explorations, Excavations, Extractions, and Expressions from My Midlife Moltdown, Random Acts of Baggage
When is it the ripe time for forgiveness? Will it come spontaneously with little foreplay? Or do I have to be in the mood— Wine it, dine it, and undress the part? Will it enter gently—or with a bang? What if I just lie back and wait? Will it come? Oh, fuck it… How...
by Valerie Sussman | Oct 25, 2018 | Explorations, Excavations, Extractions, and Expressions from My Midlife Moltdown, Ladies … Start Your Engines…We’re on a ROAR!
Bye, bye, Blandyland, Land of Black and White, Land where all waters run shallow, Where wading is the only way, And in is the only out. Where cotton is the only candy, (White cotton, that is.) Where smiling masks are pasted on, Smiling masks that mask all. Where rigid...