Heart-shaped Meals –

Heart-shaped Meals –

 My husband is loving, but Valentine’s Day isn’t his thing. It’s okay by me because who needs the calories that a box of chocolates brings – almost just being in its proximity? His reasoning that pretty blooms begin dying the moment...
Better than Sex Cake

Better than Sex Cake

It was the ‘80s. The era of big hair, big shoulder pads, and big appetites. Disco fever raged on dance floors lighted by a mirrored ball overhead. Sweat flavored the manic gyrations of those in quest of a mate. Greed was espoused—lauded by Gordon Gekko—until Tom...
What love is –

What love is –

 What love is: relentless tender feelings and accommodation of foibles… utter lack of practicality to provide any and all support… ardent devotion gingerly mingled with silliness: to take oneself seriously is to undermine the nature of loving another more...
Heart-shaped eats

Heart-shaped eats

  My husband and I met and married when a popular TV ad showed a newlywed couple readying for bed, the husband taking Alka Seltzer in the foreground while the wife reclined in delusional triumph in the background for having prepared a heart-shaped meatloaf for...