Random Throwbacks

I found this snippet of a story I began writing but never finished.

"She kept the merciless demons of her past at bay with spirits from the package store. Without them life was too hard to face for the shy and insecure girl. Each bottle helped her to feign emotions she could not willingly express. Wine made her bubbly. Vodka made her boisterous. Whiskey tended to mellow her out, while rum made her fiery. For her, it was much easier to deal with the conjured spirits in the bottle, than conquer the demons that awaited her once the spirit’s possession wore off. She was seldom sober. It was too painful."

This was from an opinion's piece I wrote for the Valentine's Day issue of the Script in 2007.

"If men are dogs, women are dog trainers.

True, there are some guys you could describe as doggish. Yet, as a woman I feel we are too quick to label men dogs and too one-sided in our judgments of men. We call men dogs, curse them out and declare that there are no good men left, but are they really the only ones to blame?"

I think the "If men are dogs, women are dog trainers" piece is still relevant, especially with the recent bombardment of these text-to-movie youtube videos. One of the first being Black Marriage Negotiations (Woman's Perspective)


More on this topic later...plus I want to talk about submission. One of the funniest parts to me was when he brought up submission she said, "I believe everything in the Bible except that part."