Flash Fiction: The International House of Pancakes
Thoughtful Thursday (Resolutions?)
What are you mulling over these days? How to get the job of your dreams? The man or woman of your dreams? Any tiny piece of your dreams while you still have time, however you may clock it? Aren’t we “of a mind” to put our thinking caps on as one year closes and the […]
How Many Great Loves Do We Get?
Great loves. Do we only get one – and that’s if we’re lucky?
How I Met… the Men of My Dreams
Youth, passion, love, passion, travels, passion… Love.
Will You Vote Like Your Spouse? (Politics and Partnership)
When political differences predict more than the outcome of elections.
The Unbroken Heart, the Marriage Container, the Marriage Trap
The reality of marriage… and divorce, for some.
“Leaving to Survive”
When marriage becomes a battlefield, how long do we put up the good fight?
Bittersweet
When he returns from nine months in Europe, he unpacks two boxes from his luggage and sets them on the kitchen counter. I recognize them immediately. My emotions are a jumble. Pleasure. Sadness. Suddenly, I feel older. I admit I’d hoped he might do this. Sometimes, he’s thoughtful that way, or perhaps he knows me […]
Recovering
Recovery. It’s a term we use when we set out to retrieve something gone missing, hoping to find it. It’s a term we employ following loss or illness, hoping to regain ourselves, battling back – or through – physical and emotional turmoil. We speak of recovery when talking about relationships – the process of […]
Next Logical Steps
Must all dating lead to marriage? Expectations that post-divorce dating leads to remarriage.