The thing about heartbreak is that nothing can prepare you for it. There is no road map to tell you where to start and where you'll end...

He had this way of making me feel like the only woman in the room and yet the last person he'd set his gaze on. I'd look at him from...

Happy Valentine's Day! The holiday that is the most loved or loathed among us. (Is it even a real holiday?) I start this newsletter today...

“Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. I say, fall head over heels. Find someone you can love like crazy and who...

Have you ever felt like something wasn't right for you but you still continued to pursue it? You knew deep in your bones that there would...

Sometimes I find that I'm constantly trying to change myself; to become something better and new. Sometimes who I am now doesn't feel...

Dear Aaron, I saw you from across the bar; your long hair tucked behind your ears, a few strands masking your eyes. You were playing pool...

Dear Roland, I met you while I was bartending - coming right off a breakup, I didn't realize how much of a mess I was at the time. I...

Dear Marco, How are you? Your photos pop up on my computer from time to time; you seem like you're doing well. Life in Europe always...

Dear Mason, When I look back at our history, I sometimes feel like I'm watching a foreign film without subtitles. You're as transient to...

Dear Ben, It feels funny writing you a letter; it's been so long now. How many years is it - seven or eight? Time gets blurry when we had...

He told me he could picture us getting married one day. He brushed his beard against the side of my face, his wet lips grazing my ear,...

It was one of those things where you just knew. You knew in the buried abyss of your gut that something was exactly how you thought it...

I've written a lot about the topic of trust in the past and how trusting people was often really hard for me to do. I've shared with you...

I used to think I was alone and crazy in how I felt in my former love relationships. The conversations that my mind would often have with...

Love has always taken the spotlight of my life. Whether blissfully in love or desperately heartbroken, it has always commanded and...

“I have an idea that this is what enduring love really means. Your memories of a girl at seventeen become as real and vivid as the...

In honor of my blog's two year anniversary, I thought it would be fitting to write a post about much of what I have experienced in my...

Have you ever had a gut feeling that was so incredibly strong and over powering that you simply could just not deny it? Whether your...

As I was going through older pieces of writing over the past few years, I stumbled upon a letter that I read at my Pop Pop's wake in May...