5 Real Relationship Resolutions
New Year’s resolutions can be motivators for much-needed change. Many experts recommend making your resolutions SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-sensitive) in order to better hold...
4 Simple Steps to End An Argument
Conflict is inevitable in any relationship. It can be healthy and bring you closer together or it can be destructive and push you apart. Often the only...
5 Steps to the Best Sex
Sex can seem overly complicated. Conflicting societal expectations, diverse individual preferences, and our own mixed feelings can make a simply great sex life seem unattainable. But a...
The 6 Essentials of Happy Love
There’s a lot of relationship advice out there. It can be a challenge to keep track of all the things you’re supposed to be doing. But real...
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Lipstick: a Love Story
Jimmy was getting old. He knew he was and he didn’t mind, he kept forgetting things but one thing he couldn’t forget was Her.
She...
The Unexpected Gift of My Mother’s Death
My mother was dying. She told me she needed a laugh.
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“Tell me a joke,” she said. “This...
Solitaire & To the Past— After Visiting the Rutgers Geology Museum
SOLITAIRE
In the days before I fell sick I dreamed of myself as a child, watching my grandfather, Salvatore, peel navel oranges. They always opened...
Finding Holy Ground
We stand in front of a ticket window, my flatmate, Lydia, and I, in bustling Victoria Station. Our fingers, still greasy from a hurried...
The Smiling Dog of Sand Creek
He sat there smiling. I hadn't noticed him until my brother brought him to my attention at the dinner table.
“Have you seen the...
Seahorse
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It was on the first day of our seaside holiday that I found him...
First published in Visual Verse, June 2017
The Girl Who was a Butterfly
Butterflies are not supposed to talk. Yes, I know that. But I am not an ordinary butterfly.
My parents were hippies led by the idea...
The High Stakes of Sexual Mystery
October is here, the month of my birth, as is Libra season. Though it happens every year, I am endlessly amazed by the sense...
The Lesson
Terri shouldered her baseball bat and hung her glove on the narrow end. She walked to Mr. Niles’ front steps, climbed them, and rang...
