Author: Sephira

Born and raised primarily in Northern Virginia, my family and I moved to North Carolina in 2006. Married for over 20 years, my husband and I have two boys and a gaggle of cats. For me, writing is a great stress reliever. I can let my mind wander and let my emotions run free in a way that is generally not possible in my normal everyday life. My writings run the gamut in terms of style and genre – for instance my first novel is a historical romance set in the Civil War, but some of the other things I have in the works are fantasy or thrillers, among other things. It probably goes without saying, but my poetry is somewhat eclectic in nature, and again while some may feel the need to stick with a particular form, I tend to write just whatever comes to mind. Let the winds of inspiration lead me on… I’m always interested in comments and feedback. So please feel free to share your thoughts with me!

Sweeping Up Shards

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After a year of courtship, a legal union dressed as pirates, and 8 tumultuous years…my marriage is ending. The thing that was never going to happen to me is happening. It was my call, but that doesn’t make it painless. It doesn’t mean I don’t love him, either. It just means that living conditions became unbearable for me and I had to make a change.

Because sometimes… even as much as we want to continue holding the bowl, there comes a time when we need to know our own limits, and recognize when it’s time to let go and move on.

Sweeping Up Shards

Love, Dating, Relationships and Disability

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Love comes in all shapes and sizes, and sometimes the shapes and sizes include disabilities, big and small. We’re exploring love in many forms with first-hand accounts from the frontlines of dating, marriage, intimacy and friendship, all with people living—and loving—with disabilities or challenges like long-distance romance.

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Love, Dating, Relationships and Disability

Obligatory First Post

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Is this thing on?

Wow… I’m actually really nervous about this. Talk about stepping right up to the edge of the deep end, and then jumping right in with both feet without testing the waters first.

Anyhoo… this place is very much still under construction, and a work in progress, and all that entails. I’m sure I will occasionally stumble, post erroneous information, or inevitably screw something up, but if/when I do so, please just politely let me know – I’m more than happy to fix/apologize, do whatever I need to do, to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

I can’t do that if you don’t tell me though, so don’t be shy!

Along that same line of thought – debates and discussion may happen from time to time. Those sorts of things are healthy and promote learning and growing, but lets try our best to be civilized about it. If you can’t get your point across without being hateful/abusive/mocking towards others, then I’ll probably have to ask you to go play elsewhere.

We do have a resource list!! It’s woefully short at the moment, so if you know of great resources for ANYTHING (seriously… pretty much anything at this point) feel free to let me know. These can be local or national, or even international, the more the better.

Other than that, I tend to be very sporadic about posting things sometimes, but that doesn’t mean I’m not around somewhere, so feel free to poke me if you need anything.

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PS… guess open for discussion a bit. Due to the nature of this blog and the potential for a large portion of the posts to be triggering to someone, I’m not sure exactly how tagging will go. I don’t necessarily want to have to tag every post with “trigger warning” all over the place, but I also don’t want to alienate anyone so I guess, if there are things that you think need warnings let me know and I’ll see what I can do.