Life, reading, writing, travel, family, friends. It was a lovely surprise to see that our intrepid leader Rochelle. Please, we need you. 8230;Click to read more stories.

This is a site that embraces my major interests, writing, cruising the French waterways, books and photography. So you take your pick, whatever your particular interest, by selecting one of the pages across the header bar above.

I Have Pretty Strong Convictions, I Guess. 8220;I could have gone to the boys downtown, you know. 8220;But here you are. 8220;Every couple of weeks. Take ma, my mother, to church.

To be safe, I seek help of people I assume will know better. Then I realize those people are as helpless as I am, and give me only what I have already seen or else something completely unrelated.

Fiction, Poetry, and Loose Change.

What is a tango for one,. Sad music of a lone guitar? What use are red high heels. When they no longer have partners? The cobbled streets are lonely,. The shops are shuttered,. The cathedral bells are dull. With more longing and more desire. I turn slowly, on my own,.

If I was a rose and you had choice,. Would you pick me, pluck me down from the tree? Would you hold me soft in the palm of your hand,. Hold my blush to the rose of your cheek? My mouth is a rosebud waiting for kisses;. My heart is in blossom pulsating for you. Please will you choose me; please love me.