Category: reflection
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May: We Remember
May Day. Mothers Day. Memorial Day. We honor labor: The labor of workers and the labor of birth. The work of mothers and the work of war. We remember those who brought us into the world, those who worked to support us and those who fought to keep us safe. …
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Speaking Ill of the Dead
An honest accounting is a loving act, not a betrayal of someone’s memory, and if we can practice this with the dead it will be easier for us to do it when it matters even more: with the living.
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Can a Mystery Novel Save Your Life?
Have you ever started something new – a job, a project – and immediately felt like it was going to kill you? That’s what the last week and a half were like for me as I took on the role of department chair at work. The fault was partly my…
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Looking Ahead, Looking Behind
I’m not a spiritual person and I don’t know anything about mystical synchronicities. Regardless, knowing my family connections to August 13, and knowing that it’s the date of the birth of three unconventional women, I feel even better about launching my book, a story about a complicated and unconventional woman,…
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1 Year Down, 3 Weeks to Go
On year ago I signed a contract with She Writes Press to publish what became Bound: A Daughter, a Domme, and an End-of-Life Story. Here’s what I’ve learned since.
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How to have fantastic sex without feeling sexy.
If you want sex with someone who wants sex with you, why should you have an extra burden of needing to feel sexy?
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What Does Writing A Book Have to do with Hating My Body?
The other day I tweeted about something intensely personal: the feelings of body dysmorphia I’ve been struggling with over the last year or so. For me what this means is that frequently if I catch a glance at my body in the mirror while getting dressed (I generally try not…
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Facing The Emotional Upheaval of First Times
How do you handle the emotional ups and downs of doing exciting and scary new things?
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Eight Minutes and the Best Thing I’ve Done All Day
What’s the best thing you’ve done today? Don’t think too hard about it. What’s the first thing that came to your mind? For me, the answer came as I was doing it and even though it was only about half past noon, I’m pretty sure that at the end of…
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Don’t Stop Coming Out
The more we know about each other the more we see the wide range of variations that comprise human sexuality. And the more we see variations, the less easily we put people into categories. And the more we move from categories to variation, the harder it to distinguish an “us”…
Elizabeth Anne Wood, Ph.D. 