The Long Farewell
I thought about you today. I always do when it rains. You would appreciate the fact that the little sensor that detects rainwater on the windshield of a car and […]
Category Archives: love
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When Your Husband Sits Next To A Goddess & Other Rainy Day Baker Thoughts
Originally posted on Caneléfornia:
It’s a rainy day and so I tried to cut the morning walk short but Jake wasn’t having any of it. Come on, I say…
Just Another Message to the Muse
I don’t know whether to think of passion as a fruit or a feeling but I do know what it is to ski three thousand vertical feet thinking of you […]
The Banquet of Desire
I want to chew through you like steak. I want to feel the many textures of you against my tongue – here, rough like salted almonds; there, smooth like mashed […]
How I Asked Him to Marry Me
This past December 24th marked my 5th wedding anniversary. We spent the day skiing in Big Sky Montana, topped off by dinner at the famous 2nd Street Bistro in Livingston […]
Just a moment, please….
There are moments in our lives. Moments that naturally separate themselves, falling away from the thousands of others, standing out like a scarlet leaf fluttering brightly in the memory. At […]
The Heart Is An Organ Of Fire
She is traveling, something she will probably be doing more of now, after the breakup. She has begun noticing the distraction of other people again. At the airport, a couple […]
Finally, Romantic Justice For Little Women’s Jo
Though it may surprise many who assume they know me well, I am a romantic at heart; whether I was already that way before reading Little Women, or whether Ms. […]
The Cosmic Glitch
Sometimes, in the minutes before love when we are smiling and talking, our bodies alive to one another and thrumming with anticipation, I expect it, finally, to happen. They will enter the room, […]
Watch your brother
Watch your brother, watch your brother, the girl thought to herself. Wondering why they always said to watch him when he never did anything worth looking at. He just sat […]
