I remember the first family meeting to let Chris and me in on their plans for getting a divorce. They wanted us to choose which of them we’d live with. I cried my eyes out. But the divorce never happened, though the threats and meetings never stopped. It wasn’t long before Chris ...
In the fifties last century, many new cities (grew up ) in the desert. In addition to rice,we need to ( supplement ) our diet with fish,mea t and vegetable. In China,children ( have to start ) school at seven. In the fifties last cuntury many,new cities ( grew up ) in the ...
Even as I crossed my fifties, our differences still present ___. Initially, I ___ my visits to coincide with the Greek game shows she watches every afternoon on satellite TV. The ice-breaker worked: soon we found ourselves ___ the same contestants or comparing appeal of the various host...
"In early 1962, after receiving the call I’d been waiting for, I approached Roger’s house to audition for The Detours. Before I got there, a blonde girl opened the front door and began slowly walking towards me. She was weeping, but when she saw my guitar case she stopped and pulle...
Admittedly, I did not appreciate Alfredo Sauce until I was in my fifties, after receiving a book The Joy Of Cooking I urge you to to get this book. There are many editions, but you will find nearly every type of recipe out there, in there. I serve Alfredo Sauce with fettuccine. For...
My heart has miraculously managed to survive all the lovers who ran through it with spears and guns and other women carried in their back pockets. I’m not saying the bleeding was fun, or even that it has stopped. I am sometimes reminded of the wars I lost by the scars that rear ...
My heart has miraculously managed to survive all the lovers who ran through it with spears and guns and other women carried in their back pockets. I’m not saying the bleeding was fun, or even that it has stopped. I am sometimes reminded of the wars I lost by the scars that rear ...
But then this weekend something happened that’s happened before. I was visiting my parents in Boston, chatting online with a guy from DaddyHunt.com who seemed interested. Very interested. He was a man in his fifties with a study lean body. His pictures displayed him in a variety of outfi...
(I can’t handle any more time zone transitions) we are now headed to Faro to explore the Algarve, a place I’ve not been since I was thirteen and developed a crush on a waiter at the resort where we were staying. He is likely in his late-fifties now so I probably won’t ...
the red tiles glinting like bent plates of blood behind his head, I see my mother with a few light books at her hip standing at the pillar made of tiny bricks with the wrought-iron gate still open behind her, its sword-tips black in the May air,...