Look what you made me do, write a poem for youI have not done this in a long time, for good reasons tooBut spending time with you has created such a stirThat only the abruptness of a verse will do Welcome! You greeted me with a tardy and unrepentant driverAnd declared adamantly that punctuality in[…]
Getting ready for a date is all about deciding when to start getting ready. If you start too early then you will miss the chance of showcasing yourself in the freshest out-of-shower manner. If you start too late then you will find yourself rushing to make it in time. I have decided on 28 minutes[…]
If you are ever in Germany and have an opportunity to watch the national team play football, with a fellow German colleague, jump on it. It is an experience not to be missed. Back in the US, we do have our fair share of Fan-dom. However, it is an incessant agenda that permeates through ESPN[…]
In Europe, Catholic church equals Downtown! Even on this side of the Ocean my association with small towns continues. With the population less than five thousand people, it will be the one of the smallest cities I have ever lived in. And with this smallness come the interesting tit-bits. For starters, English seems to have[…]
A list is only as good as the list maker I have always had a soft corner for lists. Without them I always end up buying yogurt that I would eventually trash. But these odd scraps of paper that have tasks etched on them seem to have a demure status. They can only constantly remind[…]
We have met before; twice now. And both times you have held me, partially. Perhaps, this time, since I am spending a lot more time with you, things could be different. Judging you within the confines of my hotel room was always much too easy and terribly wrong. Living with you will involve buying milk,[…]
Several times in my recent past I have sighed in relief when my wishes did not come true. I would wish for a certain event to occur but, as soon as I wished it, I would start praying that it wouldn’t come true.Clearly, there is a problem here. At quarter life, I really should know[…]
Her engine ticks over after a energizing sprint As our relationship enters the third year, I find myself terribly petrified. I have had a bad record with relationships in their third years. Not that I am setting us up for failure, but, I wanted to get that off my chest. The two years that I[…]
Undergraduate days were deceptively tiring. I was certain that it wasn’t studies or anything remotely academic that had me yawning by midnight. Of course, she wasn’t much better either. In her world though, sleep has to be prefixed with some intensely flavored herbal tea. It was, then, one such calm night. Both of us had[…]