Unashamed Writing

Venting By Ada Ireland   I started writing a poem And it turned into pretentious junk. Sometimes I try to embellish my feelings, Sometimes I try to sound smart. (That’s when my writing basically sucks.) So I trashed it … That useless piece of fake writing that it was. I’m starting over now. In the […]

I took a break from writing. It wasn’t planned. It just happened. I went to my home country for five weeks and, while there, I didn’t write anything. Even though I came back from vacation two weeks ago, I only felt ready to get back to writing today. All in all, I haven’t written anything […]

I tried my hand at a different style with my last few poems and it showed. They were confusing and bland. Here is something straightforward. I managed to sneak a couple of figures of speech in there, but the end result is still close to my raw, bare bones voice.   I love you By […]

I’m reading Jim Holt’s Why Does The World Exist? It’s a fun book in which J. Holt tackles one of humans’ oldest and most puzzling questions: “Why is there something instead of nothing?” In his search for an answer, the author talks to a number of today’s leading scientists, philosophers, and religious leaders. Jim is very […]

Three Lives By Ada Ireland   I live three lives. There’s my real life – A motion picture With only the Play button on. Rewind, Fast Forward don’t work, Pause is an illusion. It’s always Play. There are my memories – Life remembered and always (less or more) distorted By two lenses: heart and time. […]

I recently read that, if you want to know whether you really love someone, you should ask yourself, “Am I willing to take a bullet for this person?” That seems a bit extreme and too graphic in my opinion, but yes, I would say that if you’re willing to die for someone that’s proof you […]

Do you sometimes find yourself laughing at things other people don’t find funny? It happens to me a lot. At first, I thought something was wrong with me and wondered what I could do to fix it. Then, one day, I realized that something really was wrong with me and … that was just great. […]

A few days ago my friend, PD, posted a link to a beautiful poem. It’s called My Yesterday and it was written by Souldier Girl. When I say that the poem is beautiful I am talking about its execution and its emotional impact. Its message is not beautiful at all. You can read it for […]

This is a post where I will do a little bit of bragging and a little bit of whining. The bragging … well, you’re used to it by now. The whining? It will only last a hundred words or so. After that I’ll go back to being my usual confident, smart-ace self. I can’t do […]

I watched a video with Gary Vaynerchuck yesterday where he answered his fans’ questions about social media, ebay, etc. Like everything he does, it was good. The part that stood out to me and inspired this blog post, was the advice he gave a young woman who wanted to start her own ice cream shop: […]