"Just let things happen." I don't remember what exactly it was that Gabriel said that in response to on that night in Kuala Lumpur. Something to do with travel plans, I'm sure. But let's just say that at that moment it resonated. When he had said...
Sometimes you have no intention of seeing someone again. Because you think they have to be too young. Because you think the whole thing is ridiculous. Because, frankly, you still think too much. And when he kisses you goodbye and asks if you want to...
I was beginning to think I might never see a tomato. That I'd come home from that small town in Spain, from La Tomatina, from the biggest tomato fight in the world, with my 4 euro dress still pristinely white. The cannon that signaled the...
It's come time for a new rule to be put into place: no hooking up with anyone who didn't see at least some of the 1980s. I think that's fair. Don't you? Some of my friends seem to think I need to have this "I'm on...
Two years ago, a few months after he came back from the dead, as we were driving back to the city from our high school reunion he started talking about smoking. I didn't know that he had stopped. He knew I hated that he smoked...
Yesterday. He bought me a chocolate milkshake from Margie's and we watched Journey to the Center of the Earth, which was quite possibly the worst movie ever made and was, sadly, short on dinosaurs. I helped teach him how to update his website so he wouldn't have...
I sometimes think the radio speaks to me. Like when I'm driving on the highway and in a good mood and all of a sudden Like a Prayer or Living on a Prayer comes on and I open all my windows and drive past my...
This is pretty much how our conversations go...
OK, so history lesson: Mat and I dated in 1999-2000, were off and on but never really on between 2000 and 2005. Then in December 2005, just before I started this here blog, I went to visit him in Los Angeles where he was living...
I love that you sing at the top of your lungs to every song that plays in the car. I love that you can pick up and go to another country for a week on your own. I love that you take photos of everything. I love that...