When plotting revenge, first dig two graves... I first heard this saying at the ripe old age of twenty-five, when an early career mentor offered the sage advice in an attempt to defuse my anger. He was successful, and a few weeks later when I looked back on the affront, I realized that it had indeed been minor. The advice stayed with me, and numerous times...
Jamie and I pulled our SUV into the small dirt parking area adjacent to the Winsome Trailhead. Our selected hike was an 86-mile meandering track through a variety of topographies, including rocky canyons, grasslands and a river valley. In addition, there were multiple side trails that projected to interesting sites that could be explored. We were not novices...
Never in my thoughts about our relationship - our marriage, did I think I would be dealing with a situation where my wife experienced another man. However, not only had it occurred, but it was three men in less than an hour. I had profound culpability in the event, giving me no platform to throw moral grenades, and knew that we needed to deal with it calmly....
Katherine Dennison-Kupersmith felt that a huge weight had been lifted from her being. A recent hire as an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Sciences at a prestigious southern university, she had been struggling for months to identify a field of research that would differentiate her from the rest of the younger staff and put her on a solid tenure tr...
J. Robert Phillips one of the senior partners at the law firm Brooks, Snead and Dawson stood in the doorway of my office and delivered an odd message with a hint of nervousness in his voice. "Steve, a Mr. Rafael Lamontagne will be contacting you for some assistance on setting up a new business structure. Please do your best for him, and keep an open mind,"...
For the next several weeks, the young couple made love almost every day, as both were lifted by a combination of excitement and nervousness around what had occurred. During those encounters, Lynsay admitted bit-by-bit all the things she had seen and felt. Mike was wise enough not to act judgmental and only expressed his concern about her personal safety. It...
I stood at the exit from customs anxiously awaiting the arrival of my company's special guest that had just landed on a flight from Beijing through Tokyo. Professor Tze Yeung Lok was an expert; some considered him the leading expert, on Chinese herbs and natural compounds. It had taken the company, Apollo Pharmaceuticals, over a year to convince the Professo...
"Baby," Chantal said softly to Katherine, as she lay curled up next to her on the mattress. They had spent the previous several hours making love, and now the black dancer needed to wake her so they could get to the club on time. "Mmmm...hmmm..." Katherine's exhaled an exhausted but satisfied reply. "We need to get ready for work," her lover whispered. N...
Caitlin and I are a late-20s DINK couple that love to take nice vacations to exotic locales. We've been married for four years, and decided early in our relationship, before starting a family, we were going to spend time together traveling the world. So far, our finances have allowed for one large and one small vacation each year, with destinations that have...
I pulled my beat up nine-year-old Ford Explorer into a spot by the river, that was shielded from the county road by a thick stand of trees, and as quickly as the ignition was off, my girlfriend Lauren and I were leaning across the console connected in a passionate kiss. "Ready?" I asked in a nervous voice. With a nod, we opened our doors, stepped into the...