The Second Price

There’s a blog I enjoy a lot called Raptitude. Raptitude is “a blog about getting better at being human.” Yesterday’s reading, Everything Must be Paid for Twice, really resonated with me. The “second price” of everything is the effort we must expend to enjoy, or benefit from, the things we…

#sinfulsunday – loved

Maybe I should title this “my legs this evening,” but that doesn’t evoke quite the sentiment am looking for. His hand on my bare thigh, after I’d been out all day on a date with another man – not possessive, but comforting, reassuring. “Here you are loved.” Kiss the lips…

Endings, & Self-Care

As the “hiatus” with my kink partner looks more and more like it’s an “ending,” I’ve been thinking a lot about self-care, and trying to practice it as much as I am capable of doing. Sometimes, no amount of self-care helps, and there’s just the tears, the self-recriminations, the anxiety,…

a to z challenge: w is for wants & needs

During this hiatus that my kink partner and I are on, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about wants and needs. What do I want in a kink relationship? What do I need? Do I need kink in my life? Do I need sex? I’m getting long-distance kink right…

a to z challenge – p is for pikachu

But probably not the Pikachu you may know (and, if you’re me, love – yep, I’m a Pokemon Go player, and I wanna catch’em all! Okay, I’ll stop there. But seriously, if you play and want to friend me, I’m PiecesofJade on there too – I always like to gather…

More Gratitude Ponderings

Since it’s still November, I think I’m allowed to keep gushing about how filled with gratitude I am, for my life and the people that make it so wonderful, tho I promise this is going to be a lot shorter than the Great Kinky Novel on gratitude that I wrote…

An Unexpected Gift

 (This was written on Thanksgiving, but because the Missy and I are in the backwoods of Missouri for the weekend, internet connectivity has been sketchy, so it’s taken me til now to upload it.) I am grateful today. Grateful for the unexpected gift of a beating. I know, that sounds…

30 Days of Kink – Day 22: Healthy Relationships

Day 22: What do you think is important in keeping a BDSM relationship healthy? How does it differ from a vanilla relationship? I struggled with this one a bit, because I really am of two minds here. On the one hand, I want to say, “BDSM relationships are special, and…

Sometimes, Words Fail

Sometimes, words fail. Sometimes, it is simply an act, or a look, or a feeling, that defines a moment. The other night it was all of those things. We’d had a failure of another sort the night before and both of us had ended the evening feeling a bit…tender maybe.…

Death by Orgasm

“So what are you thinking about for the weekend schedule?” he asked in an email. Hmm… This is what my perfect weekend would look like: I come in and my collar is locked around my neck. I’m told to put high heels and slutwear on, and then allowed to work…