When my wife Chloe and I were in college we often got together with her family, most of whom lived in the same city. We were in our mid-twenties and in really good physical shape when this happened.It was Saturday and we were invited to visit Chloe's grandmother. When we arrived the usual family members were gathered. This time, though, Chloe's grandmother had invited an old friend of hers. When I introduced myself to her...

Raising her 18-year-old son as a single mother was actually a joy for Heather Sampson. Her son Todd was a star athlete and smart as a whip, now competing for the valedictorian honors of his senior class. Although left very comfortable with considerable assets from her late husband, who was also Todd's father, Heather enjoyed her work managing the paralegal team for a local law firm with an impeccable reputation. Because o...

Catching up, that's what I was thinking. Starting over? Making up for lost time. Why had this taken so long? What the hell had I been thinking? The self-recrimination was so frequent these last years that it was almost funny now. And behind that thought, the usual suspects. Mom tried to tell me I was too young. I grimaced in the mirror as I applied my mascara. Well, if Mom knew what I was planning tonight it would curl he...

It had been two years ago when my wife began to go through that ultimate change that most men hate. She had hit that dreaded fifty and the changes of menopause had become quite apparent. I certainly wasn’t prepared for what was about to happen as I watched our sex life dwindle down to almost nothing. It started off slowly as I began to notice small subtle changes in the bedroom, but as time went on it began to get worse a...

It was hard to wake up in the morning. Beyond the fact that she wasn't a morning person and didn't drink coffee, there was a silence to her surroundings that she wasn't used to. It had been years since she had worked the family farm and the physical stress was taking its toll. Yet, there it was, the alarm clock announcing to anyone in ear shot that it was time to get up and start the day.Sadly, she was the only one within...