His: The Immortals – Gods and Titans in a CGI special-effects extravaganza, heads sliced right off, chopping, murdering, swords, arrows, blood and severed body parts in 3D (I can just imagine people in the theater ducking out of the way of incoming parts and blood splatter), Mickey Rourke, good versus evil. Hers: The Princess […]
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His and Her Matinees
Posted in Film, Husbands, Marriage, Wives on December 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A Crack in the Diamond
Posted in Grandparents, Marriage on November 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »
This week is the anniversary of my maternal grandmother’s death. Also of her birthday, since they were just one day apart, her life opening and closing in a full circle, which seems somehow apt for a full-bodied, ample-bosomed woman who knew every kind of love and loss by the time it was her time to […]
Hot Flashes
Posted in Fantasies, Flowers, Lilies, Marriage, Midlife on August 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A while back I was strolling through a community garden, and came across a blaze of color. First I registered the deep pink, almost with hints of red in it, then the shape. They looked like calla lilies (I don’t know tons of flowers, but calla lilies are so unique I can actually remember them). […]
Reason #142 Why I Love My Husband
Posted in Country Music, Emotions/Inner World, Husbands, Marriage, Music on June 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
He tears up at the same country music lyrics that I do.