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Sunlight
This is the me that my husband loves. This photo was taken the morning after a hotel takeover. It was a New Year’s affair somewhere near Seattle a few years ago. We’d had a lovely time, mainly people-watching. We met up with a couple we’d had some very hot sex with several weeks before. We (me, my husband, and the other couple) had drinks, and laughs, and less exciting sex (than the first time)…but in the morning, when it was just Mr. D and myself, we lazed around the hotel room, enjoyed the sunlight, and he took several photos of me. I loved the way they turned out. Everything about…
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Girl in a Dress
It’s not about the dress you wear, but the life you lead in the dress. – Diana Vreeland
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I need a stiff drink
Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night, pour yourself a stiff drink. – Edgar Allen Poe
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Morning Light
“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Looking Down
“Inside her head or out in the desert was the same, and the air inside her throat was very dry to keep from crying and her neck sore from forcing herself not to look down, not to look back.” ― Mike Bond, The Last Savanna
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Bent
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.” ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations.
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Naked
Here is my Throwback Thursday photo edit for February PhotoFest 2018: Here is the original post that this image came from (an old site): Naked: A Softening Perspective
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Reading in Bed
I don’t read as often as I’d like. Mainly because I’m a mom and a busy professional. But, when I get the chance, there is nothing quite as comforting as snuggling in with a favorite author. “We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else’s mind.” ― Anna Quindlen
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Garters & Thigh Highs
Two with the same theme (but very different edits). February 19 and February 20. Garters and thigh highs are my husband’s favorite lingerie staples. Sadly, I have none of these at the moment. Guess that is evidence of our less than stellar state of marriage affairs.
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The Wife Coach – part 1 “The Ad”
Jaime scrolled down through the menu of options on the local newspaper’s website, looking for the online classified ad purchasing options. It was a weird ad to post, but she’d been thinking about it for some time. After years of trying option after option, it seemed less a desperate last attempt than the smartest thing she should have done months (or even years) ago. Kurt had been unhappy for much of their marriage. It wasn’t that she was a terrible wife, but she’d turned out to be less the wife he’d hoped for and more the wife one became as a result of constant exhaustion, and insidious complacency. She’d become…
