The adjective 'exquisite' has several meanings. The most common "very beautiful and delicate" might be said about a piece of sculpture,...

There are some who say you were bat shit crazy, but I cannot speak to that.   What I know is that on a morning of great sadness, as I sat...

He had no business being interested in me. I was too young for one thing. He was my professor for another. Plus, there was the small...

Time enough to say goodbye. To stroke softly. To let the quiet fill all the spaces that words cannot.   To breathe with each other and be...

Across the years we had gotten comfortable, perhaps a bit rusty, yet still useful for small tasks that might need a  little bit of...

At least we had the gift of time. Not enough time perhaps, but more than we thought we would get.   It wasn’t necessarily the kind of...

…cried yet?   As if the number of tears shed could possibly be a measure of how much a belovéd is missed.   However, if moisture is the...

Henry entered the house without fear. Well, maybe a little bit of fear, because he was in fact only 1 and ¾ years old and had never met a...

There are some who say when their other half is taken, my heart has been cut out. They keep the wound open, seeing it as a window -- a...

The ground drops away, pulling your broken heart into the abyss along with it. Sometimes you will meet people who are falling in the same...

Where does love live? tradition    history    poetry   would say that love lives in the heart. Yet… how can such a tiny organ hold all...

How can I say that my grief is greater than yours? Do I know the darkest corners of your nights, or the secret places that have been...

I get these hot flashes – ladies of a certain age will know what I mean – when blood sings through my body like molten copper and I must...

I long to be held down by the coolness of gravity by the warmth of an arm.   Where is the lover that used to hold me fast, who bound me...

It was the most solemn of promises, extracted from me when speech was difficult at best. With fervor and a kind of burning, he made  me...

It can be the tiniest grain wedged in your shoe, bringing the whole of your being to a standstill      bending to untie the laces and dig...

What if you found yourself traveling? Carrying a small bag packed with things you think you’ll need. You close the door on your home and...

It was the smallest of sounds, but so out of place in that quiet kitchen that I looked up from the paper, thoughts stalled in confusion....

It’s 6am and I might have had too much caffeine already and I’m on the sofa under two blankets and a cat, hugging a fat book to my chest...