The 25 Year Itch – Chapter 1

"After being married for twenty-five years, was there anything new for us to learn about each other?"

How well do you ever really know those closest to you?  Is there always something new for us to learn?When I was twenty-one years old I never thought of being married for twenty-five years.  It wasn’t that I expected Maggie and...

The Drifter Chapter Nine

"When a drifter unleashes the wildness of a shy woman, she runs away with him."

While driving north on Route One, we were stuck in bumper to bumper traffic around LA. The so-called expressway was slow and crowded with cars, trucks, motorcycles and buses. Horns were honking and exhaust was rising from cars that moved...