Have you ever escaped to an exotic and unfamiliar destination meant to make you feel differently than you do? And it does for a while, in some ways, but those feelings wear quickly... The beauty of your surroundings becomes ordinary a bit too swiftly... Have you ever taken anything supposed to make you feel differently than you already do? And it does for a little while alter things and subdue, but my, that absent-minded state of being wears much too quickly... You feel every

I remain in my heart a hopeful romantic. No one disappointing experience or person will ever rob me of believing in romance, gentleness, vulnerability, goodness, commitment and love. Perhaps, my dreams and expectations are naive, rooted in fanciful, youthful wishful thinking that at times feels out of place in a world that so often values practicality over passion... Nonetheless, I continue to hold out hope for that one man to enter my life, who will inevitably change everyth

I have put this altogether onboard a train to the French Riviera, as summer has not yet begun, with the days still carrying the lingering...