She smiled sadly “I just remembered something: He used to say he loved to take a shower right after me because the bathroom was always warm and smelled good after I was done.“
I said “Sounds like a metaphor of your whole relationship.”
She looked at me, took a sharp deep breath and slowly nodded.
I heard a great story about the Borrelli company in Italy. They make some of the best men’s shirts in the world, ergo they cost a lot too. All of the buttonholes on the shirts are hand sewn by a bunch of old women in a small town near the…
I told the famous writer one particular short story he’d written was a great favorite of mine and that I go back and reread it often. He made a pained face and said, “I don’t like that story. I wrote it about someone who ended up being the biggest mistake…
One night at a hotel bar in Texas, someone told me the story of a man who for years made audio recordings of all his favorite sounds: trains passing through town at night, wind in the trees, crashing ocean waves, fire crackling in a fireplace, certain birds, thunder and rain…
Some people live like life is a chairlift at a ski resort. They stand in one place doing little with the days until the next moving ‘chair’ comes around, usually in the form of a new person in their life, job offer, or opportunity dropped in their lap. Then with…
Anyone who likes to read usually has far too many books in their library but has no hesitation buying another if it looks interesting. I like just looking at all of the unread book on my shelves. It is like being at a dinner party where all of the guests…
An interesting fact I learned that could be useful somewhere in a piece of fiction, even if only as a metaphor:
When judging the quality of a guitar, experts listen for four things in particular. The acronym is called ASDR which stands for:
Attack (the first sound that comes from…
