©2012 Mendon Fishers It was a Saturday morning and it was raining. I usually got up and played golf with friends on Saturdays, weather permitting. This Saturday the weather was defiantly not permitting. A quick check of the Weather Channel told me it was going to rain hard all day. Then I remembered it was Christmas morning. My usual foursome would be spe...
Gratitude is expressed to "Hawkeye Couple" and Sam for their editorial assistance. Their gracious assistance has helped to move the story to the next level. ************** Doris, like most women, loves weddings, especially weddings of family members. Radiant brides in their flowing gowns, handsome grooms in their fine tuxes and youthful, excited faces made...
Entry 2 -- Linda's New Love Later that evening, Linda was flipping through the diary rather haphazardly. She was reclining in bed, not quite ready to fall asleep. Much of what she had found so far in the diary was rather dry and unexciting—discussions about procedures and staff difficulties, purchases and dull meetings with various local patrons. She was ho...
Fair warning: There's (almost) no sex in this sex in this story. ***** My Dad shot himself when I was eight years old. Felt like I had to get that out there. When I look back, and try to gauge how much loss I felt at the death of my father, I find myself reluctantly thinking that the loss wasn't that great. In many ways we had already been losing him, e...
***It's been a while between stories but sometimes life gets in the way. This will be told from both husband and wife viewpoints.*** ***** The club I am walking into is the last place I want to be. The owner and I, Willis Taylor, have a history and definitely not a good one. It is a strip club featuring white women catering to mainly black men. The only re...
Enid had just turned 76. What a year her 75th had been. She had a little fling with Clyde, nice kid, but she shoo'd him off so he could find someone his own age. She finished her obligation to the 'contestants' of her little masturbation game, her bridge game was still going strong even though poor Lucy had to bow out for a few months after breaking her hip....
Having studiously avoided reunions in the past, I think a lot of people were shocked to see me walk in the door 27 years after graduating. Why the change of heart? I had made friends with a lot of my old acquaintances from school. Some were friends; some were close friends, some I did not know at all. But thanks to Facebook our lives intertwined again and ha...
Seeing Tommy at the high school reunion brought back memories. He hadn't been my first boyfriend, or even my most remembered, and far from my favorite, but he had played an important role in my life the summer after our senior year. Now I was divorced, and he was married with a couple of little kids. Married to Janet, a girl he'd known in high school. She'd...
When Molly and I got married 18 years ago we were in our early 30's, my new father-in-law, Dan, was getting ready to retire at 65 and his wife, Ellen, was 62. They were charming, intelligent, and always interested in a good meal. I liked them a lot. Over one of our dinners out, I asked Dan to tell me about his career. "You know, Dennis," he began, "if I ha...
Growing up I, Cheryl Sanders, always knew that my parents were flakes. My parents, Winston Sanders and Muriel Smith (why my mother kept her maiden name when she married my father only she really knows since the explanations have changed over the years), are both very good looking, but they are both lacking in many parenting skills, and don't seem to have any...