by Bill LaBrie | Oct 15, 2014 | Coping, personal development, Poetry, Sex + Relationships
“Second Spring” Freeze first yields to thaw And the mornings abundant Only to reclaim from anxious hands Its eternal due. The spring comes again– This time it’s stronger. Celebrations are muted: We’ve seen this before. But deep in the...
by Bill LaBrie | Sep 28, 2014 | personal development, Poetry, Sex + Relationships
“Fell On Blank Days” It’s not with sorrow that we greet the days When nothing seems to happen. It’s more with a wish that we could know That which will make us long for these crushing calms. The days meted out in doctors’ waiting rooms...
by Bill LaBrie | Sep 4, 2014 | Aging, attachment, Coping, Education, Essays, Psychology, Sex + Relationships, Therapy
Continuing my story of adult attachment disorder. Read part one here: The Parking Lot. Part 3 is here: The Recipe for Lemonade. It was a rare, happy occasion. I remember how normal and whole I felt that evening. I was standing on the front of the...
by Bill LaBrie | Aug 31, 2014 | Humor, Poetry, Sex + Relationships
The plastic bag from CVS Lay upon the genteel crest. A solemn sign — life in decay. Around here we don’t live that way. But in the bag was a receipt For Ex-Lax and something by “Fleet.” Seems local men are bothered more By constipation than by...
by Bill LaBrie | Aug 24, 2014 | Arizona, attachment, Coping, Essays, Psychology, Sex + Relationships
This is part one in a three-part series. Part 2 is here: The Sick System In some ways, I died in a parking lot one night in 1976. And it was near that same parking lot that I started coming back to life. It had been a parking lot for a Woolco back then. Nowadays, new...
by Bill LaBrie | Aug 19, 2014 | Fiction, Humor, Sex + Relationships
I only remember falling on top of her. She was laughing. She threw her arms around me and I could smell beer and nachos on her breath. I struggled with my pants. Then, nothing–until the sun came up and the birds started singing through the window. I gradually...
