There she stood in front of me. Tall, wispy, long-legged and blonde. Freed from 40 years of a challenging, compromised marriage. Consequently, everything was new and fun – bike rides, discovering dark beer, that new fitness app, car trips, calling me her boyfriend and referring to herself as my “girlfriend. “ That’s all a backdrop […]
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Well, maybe “idea space.” Truth is, I’ve gotten, collected and fleshed out writing projects at our favorite coffee spot for a while now. The genesis of Just Go, The Playlist Trader and In Love with Potential were here. At at table. With Sal at my feet. And a cup of joe (with half and half).
It’s okay to follow patterns. Some think you get in a rut if you do the same things in the same pattern regularly. However, sometimes being a “regular “ at certain places is healthy. Lately I’ve become a creature of habit. That is, I’ve started to frequent some of the same establishments on the same
A friend has asked me to write the love story of she and her late husband. Having been in love but not loved back, how do I write it? While I’ve been married twice and have been in several longer-term relationships, I’ve never really been loved back. All of the significant women in my life
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I was just supposed to go away. There we were, cruising along in a relationship and my partner said: “We need to break up.” Hmmm. Really? Why? “I need to find myself. I may never get married again. I might not stay in the state.” And with the snap of her fingers, with a flip
As part of a group of 4 cyclists on our road bikes, we headed out for a lap of White Rock Lake. Things were going well until I fell off the pace about 3 miles into the ride. My girlfriend at the time texted asking where I was. I let her know I’d catch up
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She did it again. Our barista, Diana, and I trade notes. Lists of songs. The youngest barista at our corner coffee shop is the oldest soul. We trade lists of songs and talk about the music they choose to play in the shop. I mean, Bobby Vinton and Jimmy Clanton made her list. And she
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I’ve been on this trail many times. Mostly by bike. On foot with Sal is quite different. We were walking on the The Loop in Tucson and found this bench. It was a custom tile bench dedicated to the memory of someone named Sidney Alan Haynes, an obvious parrothead. It was decorated with a margarita
We all need a door opener or conversation starter. To the casual eye she’s blonde, short and doesn’t talk a lot. Sally, my Cairn Terrier, has opened more doors and started more conversations than a number of my human companions. I’ve been invited to meals, gotten jobs, even met local celebrities. Well, that last one
Relationships and connections are something we all have to learn to navigate. I’m sure more than once, when something didn’t go my way I’ve wanted to pop off at whoever I felt did me wrong (and regular readers of this space might think I have). But today I had something happen to me that made
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