Men
Virgo and the Circus
I’m not a big follower of Astrological signs. I mean, I read my horoscope from time to time, but I’ve never put much stock into them. Until I started paying attention to my Hubbs’ Virgo personality: Tidy. Sensitive. Analytical. Logical. Grounded. Keeps feelings inside. Respectful. Dependable, predictable and loyal. And mine (Gemini): Independent. Easily bored. [...]
As true as mine
There’s a song I love, from a little movie that warms me, sung by a Texas Country Boy named George Strait. George is clean cut, mannerly, and married to his high-school sweetheart. A country music legend, he possesses a kind of self-assurance and ruggedness that fails to threaten most men; the same charisma makes many [...]
50%
“Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got.” ~Sophia Loren. Date Night’s here again! I’ve written often on the significance of date night and how they affect what’s in my relationship basket. Next month, Hubbs and I celebrate 20 years of marriage. We’ve had our ups and [...]
What I would tell her
What I would tell her, that curly haired teenager .. is that love, real love, doesn’t exist anywhere in the vicinity of hometown boys with pickup trucks. What I would tell her, that determined college girl … is that love, real love, is rarely found after 2:00 a.m. What I would tell her, that young [...]
Heroes and Valentines
When I think about Valentine’s Day I can’t help but think about the year two heroes changed my perception of the holiday forever. You see, I’d been home from school for almost a week, sick with Chicken Pox. I was a miserable, feverish, red-faced mess. Bored and uncomfortable, I spent my days trying to stay [...]
Birthday cakes & peanut butter
“Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.” ― Janet Evanovich That quote speaks to me, not because I’m an avid [...]
Adventures of Wonder Boy and Phlegm girl
Since summer we’ve worked for it. Throughout fall, we’ve talked about it: Christmas Vacation. That glorious week off buffered by two federal holidays – yippee skippidy-yi-yay. Time to rest, time to play, time to dine, time to just be together. And then it happened again. I. Got. Sick. The day before Christmas. All our plans [...]
On goodness
“The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow, do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough, give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.” —Mother Teresa * * * Today [...]
I admit it
I’ve become a baseball junkie. When I wrote of baseball season starting up this spring, what I failed to mention is that my life, my spring, summer and fall life would revolve around it. You see, hubbs is a hound dog about baseball. No games are missed. None. So, by default, so was I. I [...]
Sunday morning, coming down
..And there’s nothing short of dying. That’s half as lonesome as the sound. Of the sleepy city sidewalk, And Sunday mornin’ coming down. I don’t know about you, but I love Sunday mornings .. coming down.
