"I love you," slipped past my lips, and I immediately froze in front of the stove. The weight of what I had just said hit me like a ton of bricks. Cathy, who was setting a table for two, paused and stared at me for a brief moment before continuing her task.

My inner voice, equally stunned by my inadvertent confession, tried to calm my shock. "Maybe she didn't hear you, or maybe she thought you sa...

How long has it been? How long since I was able to walk along the streets on a sunny day, enjoying the heat on my skin? Striking up a conversations with fellow wonderers about this or that.

Aaahhh!! She lied!! "Live your life with no worries." That's what her soft alluring voice said to me. " All you have to do," she held up an old glass jar, just under my chin, "exhale into this jar, that's all...