Dinner was a blur of conversation about topics I am hard pressed to remember, since almost as soon as we sat down across from each other I found the pleasant addition of her foot in my lap. I kept one hand on her foot, gently rubbing along its length while I ate with the other. Occasionally her foot would slide down my leg and then run back up again to rest on my thigh. I couldn’t help but be mesmerized with the stare of...

By the time I gathered all the shoes with extra friends embedded in the insoles, and started walking to the back, I heard water running. When I rounded the corner, Marisa was perched on the counter beside the sink. She had paper towels beside her, and she was soaking her nylons. "Just put those next to me here and relax." Marisa hung up her nylons, and then took each shoe as she scrubbed the insoles, and when she was done...

When I got home, I noticed the answering machine had a new message. A pleasant female voice asked me to call their call center at an 800 number. When I called I was a little nervous to discover that the credit security people were at the number given. When I stammered out my particulars, they informed me that I had left my credit card at the last place I visited. Cool! Another chance to go back to see Marisa! I strolled b...

It’s late spring and the tent caterpillars come out and strip the leaves off of the trees. The poplar trees in my area are pretty bare and as a result, the caterpillars go on the move looking for more leaves to eat. They crawl around and occasionally dangle down from threads of silk that they spin. More than one time I’ve come in from outdoors with "friends" crawling down my back. I had to dodge a few on my way to the mal...