All in Dating

Ten-Nine-Eight-Seven

I was exhausted. I went into the bedroom and sat on the edge of the bed. I stared ahead and it looked like the walls were breathing. I fell back, but was too tired to sleep. This was a horrible day.

The funny thing is, looking back at that weekend now, this would be the good day.

This Skier's Walk of Shame

As we headed up the mountain on the lift, I fixated on how I would get off that thing. As we climbed skyward I was terrified, not of skiing down this mountain, but of the small little slope of snow that awaited me at the end of that ride. With all that, the small voice in my head just kept repeating, “don’t fall off the chair — don’t fall off the chair.”

I've Just Seen a Face

There is a scene in The Godfather, when Michael Corleone, exiled in Sicily, where he and his two body guards walk along a country road.  Suddenly, Michael stops dead in his tracks when he sees a young woman approach.  His two bodyguards, on seeing the expression on his face, laugh.