Tag: love
member name: Cynthia C.
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August 18, 2006 08:19 AM EDT --
It's only been a few hours since some fast acting doctors saved my life. Robin, Bill, RG and his new friend hung around my bedside for awhile. It's now evening. Visiting hours are over. Everyone . . .
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August 31, 2006 08:02 AM EDT --
Not only is this possible, if you could read people's minds, I'd bet you would find this is the norm rather than the exception to the rule. Wouldn't you really rather have all the people that . . .
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April 15, 2007 02:36 PM EDT --
We try to ignore it as we go about the humdrum routines of our daily life, those routines that help us feel all is comfortingly "normal". But suddenly (even if we know it's coming, when it . . .
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September 04, 2006 03:57 PM EDT --
When my husband, Pete was the track coach and sports information director at MIT (this was in the 1970's), his boss, the head of the Athletic Department, led two lives. We were the only couple on his . . .
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March 25, 2007 12:56 PM EDT --
Home School Digest is a widely published magazine designed to help parents who have taken on this demanding challenge of educating their own children 24 hours a day. The magazine is filled with anecdotal . . .
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June 01, 2008 05:41 PM EDT --
A couple of weeks ago I got an email invitation for a May 31st memorial tribute that was going to be held at the Boston University School of Fine Arts for Harold Tovish, a sculptor and former Professor . . .
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July 16, 2006 06:53 AM EDT --
A talented young filmmaker called me the other day to discuss a new project he's developing about the relationship of humans to their dogs. When I'm in Maine next week to teach my class on the . . .
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August 14, 2006 07:37 PM EDT --
Pregnancy was a condition I tried to avoid but my body would thwart me. The only truly, 100% successful form of birth control that I had experience with was THE PILL. It protected me throughout my sexually . . .
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November 08, 2006 08:42 AM EST --
How do you resolve the fact that at least 60% of married woman confess to having had at least one affair (as reported in a recent study by gender studies professor Susan Shapiro Barash) and 90% of them . . .
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July 25, 2006 07:15 AM EDT --
My staff thought I'd been kidnapped, or worse. The last time they saw me was when RG picked me up at my office for our first "let's do lunch" date. There is always tittering and speculation . . .
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September 02, 2006 06:13 PM EDT --
The east entrance to Yellowstone Park is 52 miles from Cody. The legend of Buffalo Bill, cowboys and Indians, and RG's brothers and sister awaited me there. RG's mom was driving and we would take . . .
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September 14, 2006 07:19 AM EDT --
How can you really know another person? Sex is one way, but we usually learn very little during sex. Talking is another possibility, but often the words float by, some are grabbed and remembered, others . . .
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March 09, 2008 10:33 AM EDT --
It was love at first sight. On a bright, sunny, April day fourteen years ago, she came bounding excitedly up the front steps to my office, big fluffy tail wagging in anticipation of being some place new . . .
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June 15, 2008 10:36 PM EDT --
He called me at the office. It was late on Friday and I knew he held out till the last minute, hoping I'd call him instead. I didn't so he felt compelled. When you've engaged in a love affair . . .
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July 23, 2006 03:02 PM EDT --
RG had his share of intimate female relationships just as I'd been gathering men friends. He got me to confess mine and he told me about his. Telling is one thing, but meeting the competition face . . .
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November 06, 2006 08:33 AM EST --
My mother and grandmother both ironed their sheets. The only time the beds in their homes were unmade was if someone was sleeping in them. As soon as they got up in the morning, the first thing they did . . .
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June 04, 2006 10:08 AM EDT --
RG said "No dogs, no kids". The kids part was a joke. We both had adult children and I was beyond the age of possibility in that arena. But I wanted a dog. I went through phases. There was the . . .
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June 20, 2006 07:23 AM EDT --
Pete was making it nearly impossible for me to have contact with Erika. I was a bit taken aback by his need for revenge. Especially his tactic of using the daughter we both loved as a weapon. She, not . . .
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June 30, 2006 08:12 AM EDT --
In 1963 you could fly the Boston to Newark shuttle for $25 with your student discount. That's when I discovered air travel. I'd fly home from Boston University on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and spring . . .
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July 03, 2006 08:06 PM EDT --
Their home on 198th Street in Queens had a sun porch the width of the house. My gram kept it full of plants, mostly two kinds, ferns, and something called "mother-in-law's tongue". Gram claimed . . .
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