Author Martin Amis on coping with the loss of his best friend Christopher Hitchens... When Christopher Hitchens died in December, Martin Amis lost his best friend. The British author says his immediate desolation gave way to a much greater love of life, something Amis believes Hitchens had in spades and bequeathed to him when he passed away. Watch video and read complete ...
Updated October 15, 2012 at 02:33 AM by realitybites
Intimacy. Someone once told me that intimacy is in-to-me-you-see. You would think a blog is by it's very nature a platform for sharing intimate feelings and thoughts. But more often than not, it is actually a wall that separates self from world. It is a carefully controlled construct, a barrier to intimacy. If I tell you how I think before you ask, then you don't get to frame the question. It's overcoming objections before ...
Updated September 4, 2012 at 08:34 PM by realitybites
I'm very tired. I need to get back to sleep. I'm really restless, though. That feeling of something not being right...it lingers. I just want to know that everything is going to be okay. Too much happening in so little time, and believe me, I like control of my life and which way it goes. Tick, tock, tick, tock...it's the sound that never stops and it's the one thing you can't beat. You don't know where it will take you or ...
*Update September 24, 2012 ~ Just finished Mortality. It is a short book... can be read in one or two sittings. I highly recommend it to all Hitchens fans and anyone else interested in the personal dialogue that goes on in one's head when dealing with cancer and terminal illness. The late, great Christopher Hitchens' book, Mortality, is being published posthumously on September 4, 2012. ...
Updated October 15, 2012 at 02:52 AM by realitybites
*Update ~ After a hiatus, I returned to the site and have been welcomed back with warmth and kindness. I realized that in many ways, the posters there were simply responding to my gangbusters approach. I learned that less ego and more humility works wonders... at least in this case, it did. Every once in a while, I leave the safe boundaries of my journal and venture elsewhere to express myself. ...
Updated October 20, 2012 at 05:43 PM by realitybites
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