The Days of Wine and Noses.

I readily admit that I have a less than stellar nose. Like the AMC Gremlin of yore, its designers started off with a good idea, lost interest halfway through and tried to end it as quickly as possible. It’s not nature’s fault, really. She did start out...

I Get The Picture.

If it were up to me, I would speak entirely in analogies and word pictures. Even though I was blessed (cursed?) with an, at times, huge vocabulary that sends my friends to their online dictionaries and receives weekly plaudits from Grammarly for using more words than...

Let’s Make A Deal.

As the hours, weeks and years tick by, I often find myself looking back at my life and how it has played out so far. True, this exercise is very meaningless, as there’s nothing you can do about anything that ever happened to you. Still, it’s fun to do a...

Professor Marvel Never Guesses.

Kat and I get into the funniest conversations. The conversation last night was typical. We started out talking about spirits, ghosts, possession and such, then morphed into a dialogue about each other. I guess it’s typical for someone not to see themselves as...

Dating Hell.

I am absolutely gleeful this week. While I have been off the dating merry-go-round for a year now, now that I’m married, I never have to endure Dating Hell again. Let me admit, and I don’t think it’s a big secret here, I’ve hated dating my...

Fred and Ginger.

I never used to like to dance. Yes, like most of us who grew up in the 1970s I knew how to do the Bump and basically move my feet and arms somewhat rhythmically to the music, but dancing, real dancing, that just wasn’t in the cards. It’s true that I did...

Going To The Chapel… And…

I am getting married this week. I admit to having a bit of trepidation last week about the whole thing. It wasn’t cold feet, mind you. It wasn’t fear or dread either. Far from it. Rather, it was nervousness and a bit of anxiety, largely because I actually...

Feels Like The First Time…

It’s no secret that I’ve been married before. I guess my children would be a dead giveaway, though I guess people don’t even get married these days to have children. I grew up in a time when that was still pretty normal and if for no other reason, my...

Ready Freddy?

I’ve been in something of a wishful state lately. I wish I could turn back the clock of time, perhaps all the way back to 2004 when I left for Florida. I want that time back so I could spend a little more time with Kat, if only a few extra days. Of course, Kat...

Live With Thats.

I’ve been thinking a lot about Live With Thats lately. Over the course of my life, I have had more Live With Thats than I can count, largely because I would find myself in relationships where this round peg was never going to ever fit into that square hole....