I’m a rookie at therapy. Is it like at the doctor’s office, one problem per visit?  Ha! Made you smile already.  Tell you what’s on

The therapist recommended we try once more to save our three-year-old marriage. So, there we were, in a hotel room in Santa Cruz with a

Pamela drove toward the restaurant that Sébastien had chosen for their first date. Five years past her divorce, she was sixty-five years old, and two

I ran into an old crush. We used to date when we were about 9 or 10, for like one day. All we did was

I was sixteen that summer, two years shy of the service, and I never married Ardie. But she taught me something that afternoon in Brookside

Merlin “Wizard” Webb parked the gleaming Harley Fat Boy as far back in The Ponds Hockey Center lot as he could. There were still a

Thunder threatened to chase the few remaining revelers on Bourbon Street. Where were the hedonistic possibilities I had expected to find? True, the hour was

The city streets had begun to empty as white powdery snow fell outside. More than sixty people had crowded their way into Merit’s Coffee—far more

  “Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end of it.” (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country) # One time there was a woman

“James, wake up. I hear something.” Alice rubbed her foot against my leg. Four in the morning, in mid-January. The house was cold. My brain

“It’s funny,” he said, coughing, “but the one person I really want to see before I die is precisely the one person who won’t come.”

When I wake up, I’m confused. I have to lie in bed for a few minutes to get my bearings. What day is it?  Wednesday.

I Three times, Charlotte leaned against me, jumped off and walked to the pole to hug it. Every time she came back to lean against

Mara couldn’t pinpoint the exact moment she fell out of love with her husband, Dan. Maybe it was watching him brush his teeth with his

When Yamashita’s girlfriend got angry with him, she would start swearing in English.  He couldn’t always understand the words, but he knew they were coarse.