I’m going to set a pretty big hook for you right now. When I first started dating Lou, he had just purchased some very expensive, very manly furniture to furnish his kick-ass beach house. It was gorgeous stuff, and it looked killer in his house. And, it fit Lou to a tee. It was a […]

Making any kind of course correction — for me at least — seems to involve an extreme jerk of the wheel to go in a totally new direction. I notice that I tend to fret about a decision for a bit, but when I finally make up my mind, I don’t look back. I reset […]

By 2010, Lou started to offer to do marketing work for some of his friends who ran large companies. He worked the phones relentlessly until he secured several contracts that did well enough for us to pay the rent on our condo — mostly on time.  And, he used frequent flier miles and hotel points […]