Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
I have a hundred Valentines. I'm sure you do as well. They pump me up on tricky days and make my old heart swell. I call them partner, child and friend and sometimes stranger too. My Valentines are anyone who brightens my world view. I’d send them all a Hallmark card or fancy chocolate heart [...]
My dad used to swing by Wilmar’s Chocolates every Valentine’s Day to pick up a large heart for my mom and four smaller ones for my sisters, my brother and me. Some of us wolfed down those candies the day we received them, others savored each piece slowly, stretching that sweet little box out for [...]
Valentine’s Day snuck up on me this year, as it does most years; its fat little ambassador likes to play games. Hints, in the way of thoughtful cards, showed up in my mailbox throughout the week and I thoroughly enjoyed them. But, in my mad rush to get to the end of each busy day, [...]
I've been married since the Feds sentenced Fat Tony Salerno to 100 years in prison for racketeering. (That's 1987 for the non mafia-philes among you.) The point is, I've been married a looooong time. Through all those years I've developed some insights into the married couple brain and I'm happy to share a few on [...]
Cupid, with his chubby cheeks and cherub-who-ate-the-bon-bonsmile, would have approved of the way Molly and I celebrated Valentine's Day this year. Molly set the tone by whipping up a batch of cherry pie cookies for her friends and generously offering Vince and me the misshapen but still tasty leftovers. Breakfast. I picked her up from [...]