Research shows that women are aerobically superior to men, according to a running podcast to which I subscribe. I’m sure the usual disclaimers apply, but this came to mind as we were running a local 10K on a Sunday and she was long out of sight ahead of me. Soon enough, the finish line was in sight and I saw her standing there, with a post-race glow and her medals around her neck. I finished and she hugged me. We walked h...

We met for dinner, my boyfriend and I. As he was telling me about his day, he mentioned that a guy he'd gone to school with had reached out and said he had moved back to the area. This guy had asked if they could have dinner. My guy was blushing as he told me this, so I teased him a little about perhaps having had a crush on this man back in the day? His nondenials were so cute! But he was quick to tell me he'd told this...

That damn buzzing seemed louder today, or at least more persistent and consistent. My colleagues couldn’t hear anything on our call, but I looked out the window multiple times and didn’t see anyone doing landscaping work or electrical poles near us. After a while, it either faded or I stopped noticing it. I was so deep in my work that I again didn’t hear Sarah come home. She kissed me on the neck, then moved my desk chair...

I was thrilled when Sarah and I had our bid accepted on the house in the development. Yes, the house was in a development and we only had a couple of floor plans to choose from, but this was our first house. We didn’t plan on staying in it forever, just until we’d each earned a promotion or two. Particularly for Sarah, who traveled so much for work, it would be a few years until she would be able to move into an office-ba...

We lay together for a while, just enjoying the afterglow. He then handed me the cloth and I cleaned up. He got up to use the bathroom and I got to enjoy watching his ass as before he shut the bathroom door. He was in there a minute and I started to get nervous. Was this my signal to leave? I knew how it worked when I picked up men from the app, but what about now? What was this?  Then I heard the water stop running and sa...

I woke up feeling almost energized for the first time in a while. I got up, stretched, had a light breakfast and then headed down to Robert’s gym. It was reasonably early for a Sunday, so traffic was no problem.  I was surprised the door was unlocked at the gym, but it was, and I walked in. I could hear echoes of something in another area, but walked on in, wanting a look around. It was big without sacrificing intimacy, a...

I was just getting back to the condo after work on Friday when I saw my neighbor from the running group, as I now thought of him. I hadn’t thought about his invitation at all during the week, but he held the elevator for me and we talked as we went up. I felt like I had to agree to go, but really, I had nothing else planned, and wasn’t I supposed to be doing things differently? He looked different to me today, although th...

The personnel changes went smoother than anticipated, as one accepted the move to marketing with some enthusiasm and the person we let go acknowledged she needed to do better. I liked her and probably violated some employment laws giving her honest feedback. I didn’t think her future was in sales, but she was good at project management. I encouraged her to think about certification. Finding a trainer was somewhat more dif...

I didn’t see him for weeks. It crossed my mind that he was avoiding me after pulling a no-show that night in Portland, but ultimately that was his call, not mine. I had other things on my mind, like “was I going to have to replace two of my sales people?” and “was my wife going to divorce me?”  The answer to both was yes, and dealing with the first, while unpleasant, was better than thinking about the second. Neither of t...

It’s never one thing that seemingly sends you over the line; it’s far too easy to put the blame on your partner, no matter who he or she is.  But if I was honest with myself, even a little, I knew it wasn’t her. Not really. It was too easy to just let things slide or to swallow my desire after a number of rejections. If I had been able to put my supposed needs or fetishes aside, I wouldn’t be here, in the office, on my kn...