Tara's Rants and Raves: Recent Comments

Comment on Hey, I Haven't Quit Yet!

Rachel — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:21:06 GMT

hahaha i feel like i was there (except not sore)! ...and no use faking an injury if you announce it to the InterWorld ;P

Comment on My Poor Brain

Audrey — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 04:12:58 GMT

Comment on My Poor Brain

Paloma — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:04:53 GMT

GIRL! I'm telling you, you should figure out how to do Tweetups all over the world!! Think/dream big. You can do it. Sending lots of Law Of Attraction vibes your way! xo Palomes

Comment on You CAN Go Home Again

John — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:23:44 GMT

I don't think you were the only one but I will say that growing up in Hazlet with supportive parents was great. However, some of my peers at the time weren't great. Maybe they had problems at home that I didn't know about.

Great writing

Comment on You CAN Go Home Again

linda thompson — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:00:25 GMT

I too am a Hazlet girl from a dysfuntional family. Loved this blog post.

Comment on New York, I Love You

Laura — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 18:13:19 GMT

I left you a comment, and the computer freaked out...so I'll try again. This entry brought tears to my eyes. It's so good to hear you happy, content, alive...it's something I wish for you always, but especially have wished for you over the past 1.5 years of turmoil. "Going home" is much more than traveling from one spot to another spot. Instead, it's reaching a place where you're truly content and at peace. Welcome home, my love. J'adore you, always, sis. xo

Comment on Something to (NOT) Talk About

Kate — Sun, 09 May 2010 05:43:08 GMT

Those old people must have been related to the two young women I sat next to at my sister's college graduation just last week. They talked for TWO #(*&@ STRAIGHT HOURS! Unbelievable. I seriously don't know what I could even talk about for that long.

Comment on We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat

Derek — Mon, 03 May 2010 05:35:10 GMT

Total Monday-morning quarterback psychology here, but you did ask for it... my theory is that you worry and stress not for your own sake, but for the sake of others -- in this case, your boys. Is it possible that you begrudge yourself your own personal fun and fulfillment if it comes at a time when you have stress (and/or guilt?) about providing for your family? Perhaps as if your own "selfish" yin is superseding or crowding out your "selfless" yang, so to speak?

To be clear, I mean none of this as any kind of judgment on you. This is truly right off the top of my head, and I may well be way, way off, and you may be insulted, in which case you're more than welcome to tell me to fuck off. But maybe I'm not, and there's at least something in there that may be helpful -- which, as a friend, is what I hope to do for you.

You know, finding that scary shark image to include with this post couldn't have helped to banish the whole thing from your mind, either.

Comment on We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat

Christopher Walsh — Sun, 02 May 2010 20:41:37 GMT

Okay, NOT the time to read MEG by Steve Alten. (Fun book, though!)

Wish I could let you borrow a recurring and much more reassuring dream I had as a kid: about this miles-long whale off what looked like the Oregon or North California Coast, a whale big enough that trees were growing on its back. I wrote about it here: http://chris-walsh.livejournal.com/1198882.html I found something comforting about seeing that creature. No Job or Pinocchio connotations there!

Comment on Something to (NOT) Talk About

megan — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:53:09 GMT

AMEN!