Category Archives: Relationships

CROSSING THE CHANEL by Peter Nolan Smith

While I had moved away from Boston 1971, every Christmas of my adult life had been spent with my family on the South Shore. This streak of thirty-three years was broken in 1985. An art dealer invited a female French singer and me to his cottage on the Isle of Wight for the holiday. I [...]

Oh Yoko

The Losing Trifecta

A female friend had moved to the Eternal City after the failure of her marriage. Summer was glorious in the shadow of the Coliseum. A photographer, she found favor with cinematographers and fashion stylists of Rome. The wine was sweet and Stasia was fluent in Italian. The leggy brunette forgot the macho behavior of her [...]

Happiness is not only Communism

It’s not difficult to make a woman happy. A man only needs to be the following: 1. a friend 2. a companion 3. a lover 4. a brother 5. a father 6. a master 7. a chef 8. an electrician 9. a carpenter 10. a plumber 11. a mechanic 12. a decorator 13. a stylist [...]

Man’s Best Friend

Why Some Men Have Dogs And Not Wives: 1. The later you are, the more excited your dogs are to see you. 2. Dogs don’t notice if you call them by another dog’s name. 3. Dogs like it if you leave a lot of things on the floor. 4. A dog’s parents never visit. 5. [...]