Dating

My dearest Adelaide, One day you will ask me “Daddy, what was the war like?” and I will freeze like a deer caught in the headlights. “How should I answer a question like that?” I [...]

I didn’t even know why I was crying. It had ended well. It had concluded like it was supposed to. Yet, with my knees pulled tight to my chest in the loveseat of my college apartment alone, my mom [...]

We burst into laughter. We could barely breathe. The car was shaking—partly with pure bliss and partly because other cars were blazing past us. We crawled along the highway and finally passed a [...]

I don’t even like this guy, so why am I hanging out with him again? It was a Sunday or Monday night and classes had finally started up again. I was in the passenger seat of a black Toyota next to [...]

“I’m too chicken! I don’t have the balls to do it!” He wailed into his hands as they shielded his face from the invasion of embarrassment he felt encroaching around him. He just took a bet and [...]

My door flung open, and before her face even peered through it, she was yelling, “Drive the damn speed limit!!!!” This woman had been tailing my car for half a mile. You’d be lucky if you could [...]

I tossed my cell phone on the bed and watched it bounce to the floor of my bedroom. It hadn’t rung or beeped or buzzed in hours, and I was frustrated with watching it. I was 20 and the guy I had [...]

Why are you doing this? Out of emotion? Because of something in the past? Because you don’t like your present state? What makes you want to do this?   When we are covered in anger, or [...]

  It takes a lot to face yourself in a relationship. I’ve come to understand that being in an intimate relationship with my significant other has often times shown me the worst in myself. [...]

This June, my husband and I will celebrate one year of marriage, and we’re happily looking forward to the next 50. I don’t know if we did that first year right or what’s coming for us in the next [...]