Category: Do For Love

  • Once upon a time, New Year’s Eve 1945

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, January 4, 2015 My mother and father met at a New Year’s Eve party in Paris 1945, at the end of World War II, at the Pierre Hotel in Paris. She, the 24-year-old eldest of three girls who had been working to help support her family for eight years already, was on…

  • Seynt Volantynys Day

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, February 9, 2014 Dear Mr. Chaucer, For this was on seynt Volantynys day, Whan euery bryd comyth there to chese his make. I don’t pretend to speak for all people, just a couple hundred million. Just kidding. Or kydnyg or however you would say it in 14th Century English. I am…

  • Dear Cat (from Hell)

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, March 17, 2013 It’s nearly spring, my love. You are making snorfing sounds as you eat a dinner I made by hand, with chicken livers and turkey, oatmeal and carrots. A dinner the pressure-cooked steam of which requires the house to be aired out a bit, windows opened, candles burned. A…

  • Fifty Shades of Pink – Censored!

    SPOOF NOT PUBLISHED, Sunday, December 2, 2012 “When you split the hard fruit open, a mass of red seeds in a spongy white membrane is revealed. Only the seeds, with their sweet-tart flavor and juice squirting texture, are edible.” Product description, Garden of Eden Isabella leans up from the sink, face flushed, pink juice dripping…

  • Thanksgiving

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, November 18, 2012 Just recently, I see a saying I like from a post on Facebook or Instragram or Pinterest, I forget which one because I try to forget because I’d prefer to have picked it up old school, like from a fortune cookie or out of a book I’m flipping…

  • How to capture a woman (with or without a butterfly net)

    Telluride Daily Planet Sunday, August 5, 2012 First of all forget everything you thought you knew about women. When you and your friend were talking in a bar last night, and you told him you that you were sick of trying to figure women out and that if they couldn’t like you for exactly who…