All memos tagged #birthday-girl

The Notecard Game is a 24/7 sex-game in which two participants exchange color-coded notes containing specific sexual instructions, that must be followed upon discovery. Each person starts with ten hid...

The Eternal Tryst was my two year romance with The Birthday Girl; a relationship that began with Arcade Kisses and friends hooking up, but made space for mutual transformation. The name, a kind of lab...

Bounded By Impermanence was sent as part of the Journey To One: Newsletter on July 21, 2019. It was the "front page" for me processing the end an 18-month relationship. The whole process took two week...

The Birthday Girl (TBG) is the pseudonym for my romantic partner in The Eternal Tryst. The name was first used as the title for an entry in my journal, the day after her 30th birthday party, reflectin...

'Sexual Education' was a playfully delivered, voucher that The Birthday Girl and I gifted to another couple as a preface to exploring sex as a performance—in front of other people. The couple never ac...

The Reaction Junkie, or TRJ, is a boisterous and flirty character in the Original Muscle Beach community who, as her name suggests, enjoys arousing responses with stimulus. The name was shared with me...

The Fuckiversary was The Birthday Girl and I's one year celebration of The Eternal Tryst and, once again, her birthday. We attended her birthday party together and later laughed as some of our PDA had...

When The Birthday Girl hosted her 30th birthday party at an arcade bar, we'd not seen each other for the three months prior. She'd been out of town on a work a contract and—only speaking twice by phon...

The Eternal Tryst became No Longer Eternal with a Fucking Farewell—our planned closure of the ephemeral romance. The morning after, The Birthday Girl and I shared our gratitude.

This affirmation was first created to offset the feeling of loss that was discovered in the process of sunsetting the relationship with my long-time romantic partner, The Birthday Girl. As I reflected...

My texting with The Birthday Girl on August 21, 2019:

Story (and title) coming soon.

'Lover' was The Birthday Girl and I's nickname for one another; a way of sidestepping the pitfall of accidentally saying 'Love' and, thus, shift the context of The Eternal Tryst. We loved each other u...

Dancing On My Own, by Calum Scott, manifested through a nearby street performer during my conversation with The Birthday Girl when, after two years of mutual transformation in space we made for one an...

A few months after we celebrated our Fuckiversary, The Birthday Girl and I began to realize that if we didn't leave the comfort of our Romantic Way Station we were unlikely to reach our final destinat...

After The Birthday Girl and I's conversation about her newly manifested Perfect Partner, and me Dancing On My Own, she asked if I wanted a "heads up" when she was going to bring him to Sunday Funday a...

Two weeks after Dancing On My Own—when The Birthday Girl told me that my Lover had became the love of another—and one week after writing about that trip Inside My Head in the Bounded By Impermanence (...