She lay quietly, breathing slowly in my and her daughter’s arms, her heart beating faintly and her breath coming at longer and longer intervals.
Then, the sounds and feel of her heart and lungs began to fade slowly much the way sound diminishes when we gradually turn down the volume on a radio.
Hardly without notice, her [...]
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A Wonderful Human Passed Away Tonight
Posted in Age, Current Events, History and Recollections, Human Nature, Love, Music, Pretty Woman, Romance, Writing, tagged Death, Lonliness, Pain on June 28, 2009 | 5 Comments »
A Fine Romance, My Dear, This Is
Posted in Age, Boozing, Celebrities, Current Events, History and Recollections, Human Nature, Humor, Love, Multicultural Influences, Politics, Power, Pretty Woman, Romance, Scandals, Sex, tagged Argentina, Henry Kissinger, Intercultural Romance, Mark Sanford, South Carolina on June 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Or is it?
You’ll pardon me, I hope, if I descend into the murky depths of illicit affairs, which I take in this instance to mean sexual relations outside of marriage.
I’m thinking right now of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford and his Argentine inamorata. Reports from Argentina have referred to her as a 43-year old professional [...]