UNDER THE WILL… OVER THE DRAMA…

Tag: writing

  • Drive-By’s & Spy Cams: What’s Really Going On?…

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    Mae Faurel
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    This just happened. And I am feeling a little rattled about it. Well, here’s one for the family files. 20 minutes after I was out pulling a few weeds in peace, caught on the good old spy cam, who decides to roll in? Bully. Yep, pulls into the back yard, turns around, and drives out…

  • Episode 82 – Same House, Different Exits..

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    Mae Faurel
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    Funny how you can grow up under the same roof, eat the same food, breathe the same air, and still end up on entirely different planets. I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately. How the two oldest in our family turned out so different to the two younger ones. Not that any of us…

  • 🐾Megín…

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    Mae Faurel
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    This week, a fresh paw-print appeared on the Spirit Sofa. Everyone, please welcome Megín, chocolate Labrador, loyal companion, beer thief, and lifelong lover of boat rides. She’s reporting in from the other side, tail thumping and nose twitching, with a message (and possibly a half-drunk bottle of beer) for those of us still paddling through…

  • Dirty Laundry? Nah – Just My Truth…

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    Mae Faurel
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    So today, I was chatting with a few people about life, you know, the usual mix of good, bad, and bloody ridiculous. My blog came up, as it tends to when people realize I’ve got opinions and, worse, that I’m not afraid to use them. Someone threw a question my way that caught me a…

  • The Sign That Broke Me (And Saved Me)….

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    Mae Faurel
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    Fk the Sign – And Pass Me a Megaphone…. You know those moments in life where something small and stupid happens, like Bully putting up a petty, passive-aggressive sign, and for some reason, it’s that thing that pushes you over the edge? Yeah. That was me. That damn sign is still there, by the way.…

  • Episode 80 – The Anatomy of a Bully…

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    Mae Faurel
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    The Anatomy of a Bully: Greed, Ghosts & Imaginary Friends… You ever meet someone so disconnected from life, you half expect to see a Vacancy sign blinking behind their eyes? That’s our Bully. He struts around like a man of substance, but if you peeled back that smug exterior, you’d find little more than fear,…

  • The Stranger at the Wake – Part 3…

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    Mae Faurel
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    The Stranger at the Wake – Part 1 The Stranger at the Wake – Park 2 The Night of Strange Alliances… It’s taken me a while to be able to write this one. Some things stick in your throat no matter how much time passes. And this part… this one stuck. After the wake, the…

  • The Best Revenge: Sanity in the Face of Family Madness…

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    Mae Faurel
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    The Best Revenge: Sanity in the Face of Family Madness (aka: Why I Didn’t Set Anyone on Fire Today)… There’s a special kind of madness that only family can trigger.You know the one, where grown adults behave like petty teenagers, gaslight you for sport, and make you question whether you’ve somehow walked into a badly-written…

  • Episode 79 – The Day Bully Took the Remote Control…

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    Mae Faurel
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    The Day Bully Took the Remote Control (And Kept It a Secret)… You know that moment when you realize the game’s been rigged and you didn’t even get a seat at the table? Yeah, that one. A month after Mam died, the will was changed. Just like that. No fanfare. No heads-up. No whispers in…

  • Oi – It’s Huff. Yeah, from the other side…

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    Mae Faurel
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    Oi – It’s Huff. Yeah, from the other side. And no, it’s not awkward at all. Well, would you look at that – the old boy’s gone and figured out how to send a message from beyond. Not bad for a scruffy mutt who spent most of his days pretending not to hear you when…