Tag Archives: love

What is the Thing We Crave Most in Life?

Posted on February 24, 2013 by Lynette
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Love and Three Tea Cups

Posted on February 2, 2013 by Lynette

A woman came into my shop today looking for tea cups. Three tea cups, as a gift for a friend who was getting married.  Actually, remarried.  Years ago, there were three of them who lived on the same street and … Continue reading →

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30 Years Later-The life & Death of Brad Koehly

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Lynette

Today marks the 30th Anniversary of the death of someone I loved very dearly. His name was Brad Koehly and we were both 21, madly in love, and students at Chico State University, California.  On this date in 1982, he … Continue reading →

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Flirtation

Posted on August 20, 2012 by Lynette

Flirtation After all, there’s no need to say anything at first.  An orange, peeled and quartered, flares like a tulip on a Wedgwood plate. Anything can happen. Outside the sun has rolled up her rugs and night strewn salt across … Continue reading →

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Everyone has inside of Him a Piece of Good News

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Lynette
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My Next Guy: A Checklist

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Lynette

We learn along the way.  Sometimes the hard way.  When we fall in love, our checklist of desired qualities can be set aside while we are swept off our feet and madly in love. My last relationship had some very … Continue reading →

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I lost 220 pounds today

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Lynette

I lost 220 pounds today.  You wouldn’t believe how much lighter I feel!  It’s all because of a conversation last night with my soon-to-be ex-husband.  He called to beg me to take him back.  He begged and pleaded and cried. … Continue reading →

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We Lay Our Sleeping Lives

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Lynette

“She asked nothing from those she loved except to be able to trust them.  Perhaps that is not nothing, perhaps it is a great deal.  I don’t know, I can’t say.  She only wanted to feel she could surrender herself, … Continue reading →

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What he loved in horses was what he loved in men

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Lynette

 ” He rode with the sun coppering his face and the red wind blowing out of the west.  He turned south along the old war trail and he rode to the crest of a low rise and dismounted and dropped the … Continue reading →

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Love Seeps into the Machinery of Life

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Lynette

  “Love is an ancient delirium, a desire older than civilization, with taproots stretching deep into dark and mysterious days…..Love, like truth, is the unassailable defense.  Whoever first said  ‘love makes the world go around’ (it was an anonymous Frenchman) … Continue reading →

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