"Her name is Sandra, and don't call her Sandy."
I was forty when I got my first kidney stone. I heard a lot of stories about how painful it was to pee out the spiky grain of sand, but I never felt it pass. It did create a blockage...
"Sometime, all you can do is smile and say "It was nice.""
Once a month, my wife tortures me. It's not what you think. Once a month, Cathy lets our pre-teen daughter invite a bunch of girls for a sleep-over. Our sons flee the premises. I try to make up an excuse...
"Where will we be when Cupid's quiver runs out of arrows?"
Looking back, I would say that I reached an all time emotional low just before Christmas of 2015. I'll try not to drag you too far down towards where I was, but it's important to know where I started from....
"Barb finds that the more she loses control, the more she gets what she wants."
Barb took another slow, measured breath as she stared at the door ahead of her. The receptionist pressed a button, and Barb's date pulled the door open. Barb thought wistfully of how pleasant the last couple of hours had been,...
"Barb finds out that a lot can happen when someone else is in charge for twenty four hours."
Barb checked her watch again. She was where she was supposed to be, although she had arrived ten minutes early. For the umpteenth time, she wondered how she lost the bet that put her in this position. She didn't regret...
"Sometimes history isn't as ancient as you think."
Marcus Avilius looked up from the scroll he was deciphering when the woman walked into the room. It was tedious work pulling the hidden messages from the benign looking scrolls, and the fact that the messages were routine status reports...
"A mistake at the gym has good consequences."
Some people go to the gym to check out the beautiful people. Some people go to the gym to become beautiful people. I go to the gym so I can maintain my soda habit and not have to buy new...
"Cindy and I work out some of the terms of our friendship."
My wife insists that I am a jerk for taking advantage of Cindy's vulnerability. She also made me tell her every detail of how I seduced Cindy. After a round of delightful sex, she made me retell the story with...
"Jack ends it all with a pair of aces."
Jack tried not to break out sweating as he looked again at the matched aces in his hand. Another ace and a pair of deuces in the turn cards gave him the best hand he had ever held. For seven...
"Time is not the only cure for grief. Sometimes, you just have to share."
Only a cad could manage to hook up with a woman at a wake. I guess I am a cad. My only apology is that I never intended to do it. The wake was for an older gentleman from work....