Last night, while George took a shower and I washed my face, we had one of those conversations that has no doubt commonly occurred between long-married couples in every culture throughout the generations. After a brief exchange about Nostradamus, he (naturally) asked, “Do you know when the Roman Empire collapsed?” Me: “Um . . . […]
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I’ve lost count of how many Pillow Talks I’ve posted, so you’re getting this one without an episode number. Very unprofessional of me, I know. Sorry. Today’s story needs a bit of prologue. I may have mentioned before that George has been getting more and more interested in cooking lately. When he spotted an old
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Since writers tend to draw from their own experiences, I’d say chances are excellent I will never write steamy romance. Case in point. George and I are lying in bed when the following conversation takes place. George: Are you using a new lotion? Jeanne: Yes. They were out of the one I usually buy. George:
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Sunday evening I watched about a half hour of the World Series game, bringing my grand total of baseball-game-watching time this season to . . . about a half hour. We aren’t big TV Sports fans around here, though we’re all fond of participating in various sports. George grew up playing baseball. He and his
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Happy Valentine’s Day! (Think chocolate.) In other news, one of the challenges to writing good fiction is making dialogue believable. How many times have you been reading a book and thought, “No one really talks that way”? There’s an art to natural dialogue, but the big question is, who gets to decide what’s “natural”? I
When he entered the kitchen this morning, I was on my knees wiping the floor with a wet paper towel. “What happened?” “Oh, I dropped that . . . thing . . . the dealie that the coffee goes into when you grind it. What would you call it?” He pointed. “This? It’s a habernaculum.”
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