Unemployed

I lost my job yesterday. It’s not a huge job, mind you.  I’ve been working on and off at our local children’s art studio for five years.  Jill and I started working together after she allowed me to host a Kyle Vincent concert at her studio in late 2006.  I didn’t know her then; a [...]

Working Girl

“Would you like to come work for me?”  Jill asked the question the day after Kyle’s “living room” show in her art studio. It had been a strange turn of events.  Kyle hosted all of these small, intimate shows in people’s homes, and I’d wanted to do one since we’d moved to CT; Kyle was [...]

An Evening Out

“I’m ready for a drink, are you?” Kyle Vincent asked me as we entered the restaurant together. I had known Kyle for nearly ten years now, and this was not the first meal we had shared together.  It would, however, be the first meal we’d ever had alone together. Kyle was in our area for [...]

Another Website Gig

“Would you be interested in working on my website?” Kyle Vincent asked over the phone. When I’d gone to see Kyle at my friend Erin’s house last spring, he’d been happy to see me of course; it had been years since we’d seen each other, and we’d always hit it off, from the first time [...]

Seeing KV Again

I parked my car in front of my friend Erin’s little bungalow and sat there for a minute.  I looked up at the sweet little home she’d bought for herself last year, and saw the lights twinkling inside.  I had been on the road for an hour, since she lived south of me in the [...]

Impasse

The trip to Niagara Falls was R’s idea. We’d go to Niagara a few days before Labor Day, and then spend the weekend with his extended family nearby in Canada.  I was terribly uninterested and hardly spoke as we took Z up to Skylon Tower and took the Maid of the Mist tour, complete with [...]

Trust or Lack Thereof

“Do you care to explain this?”  R was pointing to the computer screen in our office.  Since we’d both come into the marriage with a personal computer apiece, there were two desks set up on opposite walls, one with his computer, one with mine.  When we both worked in the tiny space that used to [...]

Insecurity in the Oddest Places

I had been watching too much Jerry Maguire, probably. Certainly. Kyle Vincent had posted to his message board online about the tour his record company was sending him on, and one of the shows was right here in Detroit.  It was the day after I was set to drive back from my annual vacation out [...]

Circles

I was sitting on the edge of the curb, watching Z get suited up for this summer’s sport, roller hockey. Z loved hockey; living in the Detroit area, one thing you couldn’t escape was hockey, especially when the Red Wings were doing well.  It was something that Z and R shared together, watching the games; [...]