I met Simone at work when she started as an intern during her final year of college. She was 20 at the time and I was 40. It took some time for us to start interacting since we were in different departments, but eventually after she was hired full time, we started to have some conversations and working together. I found her to be beautiful from the first time I saw her and thought there was no way she would ever be intere...

PREFACE (not in same verb tense as the following story!): My cousin, Gayle grew up in Hawaii ; I really didn’t know her until we went to visit for Christmas one year when I was a teen. This story is what she and I wished had happened so many years ago, it was only many years later we got together.Story: One evening...Gayle and I are out swimming in the pool when our parents come out to ask if we want to go for a walk. We...

You and I are at a mountain lake, its fall, the leaves are changing color, and the air is cool and crisp but not too cold. The leaves are brilliant colors of yellow, orange and red… The lake is calm and like a mirror reflecting all the colors. We decide to hike to the top of a mountain at the lake shore to get bird’s eye view of the surrounding area and the beauty of the season.The hike is not difficult but not easy eithe...

Let’s see, it is a nice sunny day, like today, maybe a little warmer. I take you up to my relative’s farmette to go out horseback riding. I am wearing jeans and my boots, a t-shirt and a flannel shirt, not buttoned or tucked in, and my hat. You are wearing the same, except no hat.I take you into the barn to grab the saddle, saddle blankets and reins and introduce you to the horses. I show you how to put the blanket and sa...