Comments on: un-retirement http://www.texasgoldengirl.com/afterhours/unretirement/ random discourse from the original independent upppity educated angry international hobo activist backwoods-feminist escort Barbie and catalyst Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:33:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Amanda Brooks http://www.texasgoldengirl.com/afterhours/unretirement/comment-page-1/#comment-295476 Amanda Brooks Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:22:56 +0000 http://www.texasgoldengirl.com/afterhours/unretirement/#comment-295476 Michael -- Thanks! Glad you can appreciate. I'm getting more Zen in my old age (in many aspects of life, but not all). I appreciate your comments on my writing. It's something I work on and I try to be genuine or I don't bother posting it. I don't want people coming here and reading some sort of blather that sounds fictional. Sometimes I think I'm an atypical escort, sometimes not. Who really knows? Lots of very diverse women are attracted to escort work for a lot of the same reasons I am. (And then I go on Backpage and sigh deeply.) I need to do more research on the micro-finance project. I have a question I need answered first. It's been in my mind for 2yrs now -- this is how fast I work. :) Michael — Thanks! Glad you can appreciate. I’m getting more Zen in my old age (in many aspects of life, but not all).

I appreciate your comments on my writing. It’s something I work on and I try to be genuine or I don’t bother posting it. I don’t want people coming here and reading some sort of blather that sounds fictional.

Sometimes I think I’m an atypical escort, sometimes not. Who really knows? Lots of very diverse women are attracted to escort work for a lot of the same reasons I am. (And then I go on Backpage and sigh deeply.)

I need to do more research on the micro-finance project. I have a question I need answered first. It’s been in my mind for 2yrs now — this is how fast I work. :)

]]> By: Michael http://www.texasgoldengirl.com/afterhours/unretirement/comment-page-1/#comment-294919 Michael Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:36:26 +0000 http://www.texasgoldengirl.com/afterhours/unretirement/#comment-294919 Are you kidding? Too much zen? I like reading your perspective on things because you are refreshingly honest, open and genuine. The experiences you are willing to share here are so different to what I experience, and that is also why I like reading what you have to say. I also like it because I can feel your emotions through your writing, and it is never jaded, often funny, and always genuine. You seem far from "typical", escort or not, which is what makes you so appealing. Thanks for the insight, as usual, and can not wait to see what micro-finance project you have planned! Are you kidding? Too much zen? I like reading your perspective on things because you are refreshingly honest, open and genuine. The experiences you are willing to share here are so different to what I experience, and that is also why I like reading what you have to say. I also like it because I can feel your emotions through your writing, and it is never jaded, often funny, and always genuine. You seem far from “typical”, escort or not, which is what makes you so appealing. Thanks for the insight, as usual, and can not wait to see what micro-finance project you have planned!

]]> By: Amanda Brooks http://www.texasgoldengirl.com/afterhours/unretirement/comment-page-1/#comment-294761 Amanda Brooks Mon, 23 Jul 2012 12:38:57 +0000 http://www.texasgoldengirl.com/afterhours/unretirement/#comment-294761 Michael -- It was a difficult time, both when I originally wrote the post and when I re-posted it. Lessons learned is all I can say. (The truly amazing thing is that I've run into men who want me to repeat those lessons and get offended when I tell them "Been there, done that, no thanks.") Monogamy or non-monogamy works when it works for the two people involved in the relationship. Period. Just that very few people are able to be open, honest and let go of what they're taught to want, as opposed to figuring out what they REALLY want. And what one wants changes as one's life and self changes too. Self-awareness shows one the way, it always does. Knowing one's self opens up one's life. Doesn't mean the answers are easy but the way is there if one is willing to look for it and follow it. Probably more Zen than you were expecting on an escort's blog, but there you go. :) Michael — It was a difficult time, both when I originally wrote the post and when I re-posted it. Lessons learned is all I can say. (The truly amazing thing is that I’ve run into men who want me to repeat those lessons and get offended when I tell them “Been there, done that, no thanks.”)

Monogamy or non-monogamy works when it works for the two people involved in the relationship. Period. Just that very few people are able to be open, honest and let go of what they’re taught to want, as opposed to figuring out what they REALLY want.

And what one wants changes as one’s life and self changes too. Self-awareness shows one the way, it always does. Knowing one’s self opens up one’s life. Doesn’t mean the answers are easy but the way is there if one is willing to look for it and follow it.

Probably more Zen than you were expecting on an escort’s blog, but there you go. :)

]]> By: Michael http://www.texasgoldengirl.com/afterhours/unretirement/comment-page-1/#comment-294727 Michael Mon, 23 Jul 2012 07:32:49 +0000 http://www.texasgoldengirl.com/afterhours/unretirement/#comment-294727 Lots of interesting things in this posting. You sound so melancholy, I can feel it. Nice that you have support from your readers/friends. Count me in if you need it. Bonobo society, sounds like utopia. Making love to say hello? That does get all of the tension out of the way immediately. Monogamous relationships are not for everyone, as I have finally discovered. I think what is needed is that non monogamy should be taught in schools so that everyone could be aware that it is a possibility. I personally have been blindsided by feeling the way I do. Part of my current journey. Glad you are in a better place now! Lots of interesting things in this posting. You sound so melancholy, I can feel it. Nice that you have support from your readers/friends. Count me in if you need it. Bonobo society, sounds like utopia. Making love to say hello? That does get all of the tension out of the way immediately. Monogamous relationships are not for everyone, as I have finally discovered. I think what is needed is that non monogamy should be taught in schools so that everyone could be aware that it is a possibility. I personally have been blindsided by feeling the way I do. Part of my current journey. Glad you are in a better place now!

]]> By: TexRich http://www.texasgoldengirl.com/afterhours/unretirement/comment-page-1/#comment-137574 TexRich Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:38:15 +0000 http://www.texasgoldengirl.com/afterhours/unretirement/#comment-137574 I love what Marlon Brando once said about past relationships...."The past is ancient history...". I love what Marlon Brando once said about past relationships….”The past is ancient history…”.

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