I love my boyfriend ( Read more... )

It snowed in Rome this past weekend like it has never snowed before. Rome is not a city where it snows. London, New York are cities where it snows. Rome is too temperate, too near the sea, for it to snow like it does, as a yearly event in London or New York. I used to be jealous of London and New York for this. But this year, this weekend, it ( Read more... )

I would just like to be able to escape and give these feelings to someone else.

But who can I fault? I can only be me and you can only be you.

One of the most beautiful songs ever written... go listen to Rachelle Ferrell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TygQkOWeLw

With every breath I take

here's not a morning that i open up my eyes
And find i didn't dream of you
Without a warning, though it's never a surprise
Soon as i ( Read more... )

He is too slow and hesitant and undecided.

And I am too biblical.

He sleeps with another woman in order to qualm his anxieties about the woman he fears he loves. In order to regain control over himself and impose order in his world. He uses another woman as relief treatment for the feelings he has for that woman he fears he loves ( Read more... )

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Did you know that the inventor of the crossword puzzle was Italian? Except that when he introduced the crossword puzzle to the Italians, it wasn't well-received -- not that it was booed, it was just largely ignored. This is largely typical. It required American interest to raise Italian interest. The name of the journalist who invented the ( Read more... )

I am terrified of the spaces in between, the spaces in which we aren't talking, because I know so much can happen in them... Trust replaces fear when we are actually together, when we are face to face, when I have the semi-tangible proof of your affection in front of me... but I know so much can happen in the spaces in between, in the moments of ( Read more... )

I fortuitously stumbled upon this user's livejournal entry and found this treasure of a letter that answers so many of the questions I have been posing myself. I am posting it here because you might benefit from it, too ( Read more... )