So if I were to write my story, what would it be about? All the good bits—as I’ve jokingly threatened? Or would I fill pages with fear, abandonment, and the longing for something that seemed just out of reach? Or pure joy? Everything feels true, but how much wraps up this one glorious adventure of […]
Your Own Opera
My first lover named his premier record album “Old Number One.” Decades after being divorced from a different man—I still refer to my ex-husband as “old number one”. First attempts at love and marriage have no guarantees. Both events broke my heart—one in a year and the other took 12 years. I […]
5 AM
It’s nearly 5 a.m., and I’m amazed how quiet it is. It’s blackness with no streetlights, soundless with no trains or trucks. The air is not stirring with my truelove’s snoring because he is in the wilderness with friends. At times it feels perfect to be alone with my thoughts floating along in the predawn […]
