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Starting Over
Both in Life and Writing
It’s been too long since I’ve sat here at my laptop with the urge to write. I think about writing, often. I just haven’t been able to make it a priority, for whatever reason. But recently I have felt the “winds of change” flowing through my life and writing again seems to be the natural place to begin.
When I moved back to the US, during the pandemic. It was a very difficult transition for me. You can see in the cover photo- where I life now is a very different life than the one I had traveling, living in big cities like Medellin, Colombia and Berlin, Germany. (If you followed me before I stopped writing, you know that Berlin is my heart and my ideal life. That has not changed!)
My non-monogamous polyamorous life significantly changed too. Living in a cluster of smallish cities does not exactly offer me the same size dating pool as Berlin does. That has been difficult for me. I am polyam to my core, I’d love to be in multiple relationships, but I am struggling to find one person to date at a time, let alone have a polycule of great humans.
I was in a relationship with a few men (two, and not concurrently LOL), I wrote about them too, as I was still writing then, but I haven’t been in a relationship in maybe two years? I dated a guy- thought we were in a relationship, we weren't not really (I’ll write about that now…