I was about to go to sleep after a particularly delightful session with the husboo when something snatched me away from my much-deserved post-coital slumber: A realization. I couldn’t smell the sex I’d just had. I …
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“Two’s company, three’s a crowd”, the saying goes—but in the Odyssey of Desire, this loaded arithmetic is disproved by the logic of self-love. “You are your own person. When you couple up with a partner, you …
I met the man who would eventually become my husband when I was 24 and when I had a strict “no more than 5 years older” policy when it came to dating. I turn 40 this …
Whew chile! We are in some strange and unpredictable times. 2020 has been one hell of a hot mess and we’re only halfway through. No one knows what to expect next, except maybe the CIA. I …
(continued from previous post) It started early in the year when I had so much work to do. I was getting to work and leaving at odd hours in order to meet deadlines. There were days …
It’s the 7th of April, 2020, 5:30 pm. It’s Tuesday and I’m home, lying on my sofa trying to write this piece. I should be at work, but I’ve been on a two-week compulsory leave for …
Have you ever seen the movie Crazy, Stupid, Love? In the beginning of the film Steve Carell and Julianne Moore are having dinner in a swanky restaurant. Steve is wearing an ill-fitting jacket and battered New …
There are some behaviors that classify as “white people tingz”. Those quirks include putting raisins in potato salad, aversion to seasoning food, and partners continuing to live together after a split. There are some things that …
I wish I could say I noticed him the minute I saw him, but that would be a lie. I’m often a dumbass, head stuck in the clouds of my career and life and money, money, …
The sun had just come up, its rays filtering through the latticework of our bedroom window, settling on the face of the man I’ve been married to for eleven years now. I watched him through eyes …