I haven't been out since my wife left. I have made a conscious effort to avoid any romantic opportunities and conversations to allow myself a fair time to heal. It's hard!! I've consistently been with someone for the last 26 years, with the exception of the year after my first wife died. Even then, I went out prematurely with a couple women, and spent a lot of time in strip clubs just for the female companionship, regardless the level of intimacy that can be derived from that.

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Am reading Dan Browns, recent novel, INFERNO. Brown does a lot of research to build a lot of truth around his fiction. So as readers we are given, well researched facts overlaid with pure made up stuff.
On page 83 we see how Dante's, writing and art has influenced centuries of thought about hell.
His vision of eternal pain and suffering has caused millions to live in fear and in constant dread of ending up there. Dante's inferno created a world of pain and suffering and continues to...

I watch my Wife breathing and think "I wonder how much time we both have on this Earth?"

Your sitting on your easy chair, sleeping, and looking so peaceful. You make me love you more each day, just being there and being yourself all the time.

Your leg pain is getting worse, from your diabetes, so now, the Emergency Room has prescribed you vicodin too!

What in the World is happening to us, my love?
We wanted to spend the 'Golden Years' of...

I got up early this morning, and brought some more firewood up to the house. Made cinnebuns for the kids for breakfast, and took my daughter to school.

While I was there, I stopped in at the school office. A couple weeks ago, I filled out paperwork to make sure I was the default number if the school needed to reach me, instead of the ex wife. I still had not received a phone call from them in regards to anything, including snow day changes. The secretary looked in the system...

I've been working for a small landscaping company for the past three years, (my seventh year in the industry). It's a new company, that started just a few months before I signed on. The owner, has no landscaping experience but has a strong back ground in sales, and running a business. He very rarely ever stayed on any of the jobs we have had over the past few years, and to be honest, I have enjoyed the autonomy to run the crews the way I wanted to.

With the exception of winter,...