This installment of Julie’s Story, which focuses on our wedding and the discovery of Julie’s breast cancer, takes the form of Vows, a short story written by Julie. This decision was not made without trepidation.Continue reading

Happiness writes white ~Henri de Montherlant My first sight of the Caribbean Ocean precipitated severe perceptual dissonance. Compared to the large bodies of water upon which I typically gazed (e.g., Lake Michigan as seen fromContinue reading

The Final Leg Of The Journey By calendrical quirk, the first day Julie could leave Wichita Falls, her job, her apartment, and her friends to join me in Chicago was Christmas Eve. And so, whileContinue reading

We’ll kiss the first of a million kisses and let the past fall away ~From Allelujah by Fairground Attraction   …then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him.Continue reading

So kiss me and smile for me Tell me that you’ll wait for me Hold me like you’ll never let me go Cause I’m leavin’ on a jet plane Don’t know when I’ll be backContinue reading

How I Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical aboutContinue reading

Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane, Ain’t got time to take a fast train. Lonely days are gone, I’m a-goin’ home, ‘Cause my baby just a-wrote me a letter. ~Refrain from The Letter, first popularizedContinue reading

Julie & Me While Julie was emotionally and geographically ricocheting through the first half of the 70’s, my life during that same time was, by comparison, staid and straight-forwardly conventional yet intensely morose and perfusedContinue reading

Julie Does Wichita Falls Before leaving Puerto Rico, Julie somehow wrangled a part-time teaching assignment at a state university in Wichita Falls, Texas, a site chosen solely because it was in the same area fromContinue reading