Wild Abandon It’s not that I forget about Jess, or that my feelings of guilt dissipate overnight, no, far from it. But, my reasoning for breaking up with her proves to be sound. Without her in my life, my access to Ethan is greatly increased. Managing three people's schedules is way, way easier than managing four. Liza is working long hours at her new job and Ethan’s place is only two stops from mine. Stopping in after wo...

  It’s Complicated     It’s been almost two weeks since we got back from the cabin. Real life has turned out to be a real nightmare. Liza has started a new job, which is turning out to be super stressful so she’s needed a lot of Ethan’s time. Added to that, there’s no getting around it, Jess is being clingy. Honestly, I can’t say I blame her. I’ve been blowing hot and cold for months. The net result of all this, is that E...

As the intense summer heat dissipates, our lives have taken a peculiar, yet curiously tolerable rhythm. It seems that the very high notes and the very low notes can’t be heard by anyone but us. They involve only us and no-one else knows about them. We don’t talk about them and once they are over, we are able to live in the mid-tones. In the open. Bizarrely, in the mid-tones, we are developing what one could consider a fri...