Speak Up!
You know you’re in trouble when his favourite sound is the snap-crack fizz of a freshly opened beer can.
The real trouble with the breaking up is the self defined language that permeates conversations.
It’s a secret vocabulary that is a personal phrase book with even its own dialect sometimes and the real problem is [...]
Man In The Mirror
There have been sheets and sheets of scores written about them: Odes and sonnets that are dedicated to those unsung heroes.
We would be no where without them and I couldn’t imagine my life without them.
Friends.
God, I’m so damned lucky with the friends I have.
Calling me just to make sure I’m alright, if I need to [...]
Cost Of Living
I suppose I can’t blame him.
You don’t throw away a meal ticket easily.
I mean you don’t have to worry about anything but your own interests.
So I’ve been wondering, what is my price?
I mean, he does things he hates, fiercely.
Could I go to the market on every Saturday (which he loathes) and [...]
Lesson #8
I was sucker punched. In the gut, when I wasn’t looking.
He went right for the solar plexus and didn’t hold back.
The real problem was that I, apparently, asked for it.
I did.
I asked to be mowed down by a guy who can’t love.1
Why the hell didn’t I see it?
I deserve it [...]
Epiphany!
It’s a character flaw, I suppose.
I mean, when they say to someone, "What’s your biggest weakness?", and the answer is invariably, "I love too much. I care too much. I’m too generous."
Those aren’t deficiencies.
What they should be saying is, "I’m too trusting. I let ‘whack jobs’ walk all over me. I don’t listen [...]
Him
You touch his feet when he insists that he’s embarrassed by them and feels insecure about their appearance but you don’t care.
They’re attached to him and so therefore are beautiful because they belong to him.
You give him a pedicure, even go so far to buy a special kit that’ll make them shine even [...]
Satin Sheets
There is no hiding my passion of hatred for snowy, blustery days.
There’s no use in pretending.
The last blog I wrote about our last blizzard I titled, "White Satan."
Well today is different. It’s absolutely beautiful.
It started today, this morning around six a.m. and it’s still going strong with it letting up, apparently [...]