Tag Archives: marriage
When Two Become One – Keeping the Pieces in Place
“Daddy was taking my desk apart on one side of my room while Mama went through what I’d kept stored in its drawers nearby. Pieces of me were being disassembled and redefined so they could be reassembled at David’s. I had no idea when that would happen, but I had a …
When We Stop Speaking
It came as a shock to me the evening my laptop swore my printer was a stranger and refused to communicate with it. “Don’t recognize…something’s changed…please unplug that cable.” “But you’ve been together since…since forever,” I argued. “How can you claim you no longer identify with him/her/it?” I undid the …
Relationships we go through the motions for, and those that beat in our heart
“It was there, the aroma of him, in the downtown air. As strong as I smelled it on the train when he was right there beside me. It was him. It had to be.” I fiddled with the glass of water the waitress had brought. “But of course he’s gone, …
Proposition or Proposal…
Matters little…I accept. – Women worth writing about.
What we are – What we seem
“She was a woman who was a wife, doing what she had to do, whatever the cost.” ****** “She’s pretending – Lana gauged her young daughter’s face. She rides a horse that doesn’t exist, and she’s pretending her father doesn’t, either.” ****** “‘You fought in the war?’ she asked. ‘I …
MEN WHO LOVE THEIR WOMEN – THEIR DAUGHTERS AND THEIR BRIDES
Daddy walked over to my suitcase and stared down into it before he glanced up at me. He looked tired, like I was. Both of us exhausted from a wedding – me from mine to come, and him from his in the past. “I didn’t realize years ago when we took …