“Let’s go to that Japanese restaurant you like,” Amy said on my birthday. “Later, grams,” I said to my mom as she watched the kids. It was one of the first heavy snows this month.  The downtown lights made the kind of lonely neon Christmas I like.  The sushi restaurant was empty in an eerie [...]

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It’s never too late to learn something new.  But just in case, Amy and I arrived at our first dance class early. Taking dance class was my idea.  I wanted to do something new with Amy.  Something out of my comfort zone… but as college kids and mature couples arrived, I had second thoughts.  What if [...]

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I arrived at the school fifteen minutes before lunch time.  I spied on my six-year old cub protectively through the colorful cardboarded windows of his classroom, relieved to see my shy boy interacting with his classmates enthusiastically.  My two fears are that he will be like me, and not be like me. The school cafeteria [...]

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I felt quite a bit better after writing the previous post, just getting that out of my system. When Amy came home from the office outing, she told me that the Seymour guy I’d been complaining about didn’t even show.  So the office females started talking about how he sounds like a girl on the [...]

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“I saw The Wrestler by myself today.  It was really good.  You missed out.” “You didn’t ask me.” “I asked you three weeks ago and you weren’t interested.” “You said you didn’t want to go out!” “That was a different issue….” Maybe we were arguing about why we couldn’t get another cat again.  I couldn’t [...]

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