Life Lessons – SHELIA ★ TAYLOR

A Lesson in Irritation

By Shelia Taylor on February 9, 2020

Well, the first 9 days of February have been an external internal battle. Internal battle of not letting external affect my mental space and an internal battle of why I am suddenly […]

Player One, Ready!

By Shelia Taylor on January 7, 2018

If you don’t get the reference, it’s from playing video games. Specifically arcade games (for me anyway). You dropped your money into the slot and pressed how many players there were and […]

I’m Taking Consent Back

By Shelia Taylor on October 9, 2015

I am going to be completely and brutally honest. Honest with myself. I can’t believe I let someone mentally and emotionally abuse me. In an exchange with friends, I asked this: “Why […]

Sunday Reflections: Choose Happiness

By Shelia Taylor on March 8, 2015

As I said last Sunday, that I wasn’t going to give any more energy in living a life that chooses me. From last week’s post: I do not choose and will not let […]

The month of February I was not living from the choice of what I wanted to do. I was living in the choice of what I should do to get through the shit I had on my list…aka sleep walking through the monotonous motions of a life I was not choosing to live but a life I was letting choose me.

THE $23.69 LIFE LESSON

By Shelia Taylor on January 9, 2015

If I am honest, I am undeniably single. I have been since 1999. It has been by my choice and I must say, it’s been one of the best choices I’ve made for my life. Some people need someone to feel complete and happy, and I’m pretty darn complete and happy with me. I don’t knock those who need someone, but I am an advocate at learning to spend and love yourself. RuPaul says it best: “If you don’t love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?”