Till death do us part

Till death do us part

Just not seven days a week. Did you feel a bit proud when same-sex marriage became law in 2017? All, not just some of the friends and family at our wedding could now have one too. But would they also …
The perfect first date

The perfect first date

We both brought our dogs. I left mine with her while I went to get coffee. He did what dogs do on a walk; I came back to find she had picked it up and found a bin. I was …
Five foot eleven?

Five foot eleven?

It was our first, and only date. Five foot eleven? Nup, she said. She sized me up and made me feel, well, small. I don’t know how she picked it. RSVP profiles at the time accepted height in feet and …
The Bead Moment

The Bead Moment

She broke her first rule of dating. Never get into a strange man’s car. We’d left the noisy venue and stopped to talk when I spotted her hand-hewn necklace; she removed it, with a kind of intimacy, to show me. …