La la la, minding my own business, not sneaking up on Mary like a land shark (cue theme from Jaws). “I know those teeth,” Mary said about the ones biting her shoulder, “Those are Daffy’s....
2023-11-12 21:39:32 +0000 UTC
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“When’s the last time you wore a collared shirt,” Amanda asked as she got Jamie dressed in the new polo shirt Becky bought him.
“Christmas probably,” he replied as she she pulled it...
2023-11-08 19:37:07 +0000 UTC
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Scene #218
I couldn’t help but notice, because I’m a good noticer, that while I was forbidden from texting Mary (and wasn’t privy to where my phone was), Sandy was in no way ...
2023-11-05 20:42:44 +0000 UTC
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“Wait,” I said, “you’re leaving?”
“I’m just going to work,” my wife - got that? My wife. - said like that was an answer to my question, which it was but wasn’t for reasons t...
2023-10-28 19:28:47 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks! Sorry I've been quiet lately. My big annual work project wrapped up, and it was a sprint to the finish! And now I'm about to go on a much needed 2-week vacation. It's a very active vacat...
2023-10-14 23:49:46 +0000 UTC
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Becky and Amanda sat down on their couch after getting Jamie tucked into bed. He’d fallen asleep before they got home from the hospital. Becky admonished Kazoo to be quiet, and he was sitting at ...
2023-10-04 13:18:26 +0000 UTC
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Consciousness returned first, a soft awareness of being awake. Jamie liked this feeling, this being awake while his body was still asleep. It was warm and restful. He didn’t want to open his eyes...
2023-09-27 12:58:08 +0000 UTC
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“Hi,” Becky said as she stood at the desk in emergency. “My humanologist told us to come here. My little boy is having some severe abdominal pain. Dr. Bowers said he’d call ahead for us.”...
2023-09-24 18:28:39 +0000 UTC
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I know I haven't been posting as often as any of us would like, and I'll spare you the reasons except to say I'm trying to fix them. Part of that is writing 3-5 chapter Mary and Daphne arcs like th...
2023-09-17 18:57:31 +0000 UTC
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“Bath time for filthy bears,” Amanda said as she got Jamie out of bed. “Did you sleep well?”
“Okay.” Obviously not well enough, it seemed to Manda, as he felt limp on her shou...
2023-09-11 17:36:20 +0000 UTC
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There is such a thing as scene drop. You do an intense kinky scene, or you go to a kinky party or convention, and the return to normal life is such a let down that it feels like depression. It suck...
2023-09-03 21:58:03 +0000 UTC
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“Wake up,” this lady I took on vacation said.
“Ehhhh fubbit,” I grumbled without opening my eyes.
“Time to wake up.”
“Govay.”
“Do I need to tickle you out ...
2023-08-29 00:44:31 +0000 UTC
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“Not a big deal, Jamie,” Ella told him for the third time. “It happens to me every once in a while.”
“That’s different.”
“Not that different.” Becky usually gave Jamie...
2023-08-23 00:41:55 +0000 UTC
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Jamie’s trip to Manda’s university to participate in a classroom lecture had become a once-a-semester ritual. He’d gotten to like the professor, Dr. Stern. Every semester, the students had th...
2023-08-17 13:26:54 +0000 UTC
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“You need anything,” Becky asked as she stood over Amanda’s bed.
“No. Thank you.” From where she laid, she could see the top half of Jamie’s head, his forehead creased in concern ...
2023-08-14 22:31:00 +0000 UTC
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Amanda had started some of her reading to prepare for her first semester of graduate education in human studies. She’d not yet selected which precise field she wanted to pursue, but she had some ...
2023-08-08 01:12:18 +0000 UTC
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“Mary,” I said to Mary cuz that’s who I was talking to. Not just any Mary either but my Mary. Usually that’s just a thing I say cuz it’s so fun to be reminded that I’ve got the one and ...
2023-07-30 20:08:03 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 21
I didn’t get to be the best babysitter in town by dismissing my charges when they say something nutty (some of them are toddlers – they pretty much only say nutty st...
2023-07-22 22:17:05 +0000 UTC
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The way back always seems shorter than the way to somewhere, unless you’re getting taken back to the changing booths at the boardwalk of a public beach to get scolded, probably spanked, and chang...
2023-07-16 00:43:21 +0000 UTC
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I showered, had a small snack, drank some gatorade myself, and made another bottle to leave on Gordy’s nightstand before I went to bed. I couldn’t resist (it’s why I’m the best babysitter)...
2023-07-09 18:37:28 +0000 UTC
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Matt offered to help, but I politely turned him down after thanking him again and apologizing on Gordy’s behalf. I felt the need to once again say, “He doesn’t normally drink; I think he just...
2023-07-04 17:08:04 +0000 UTC
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You’re on vacation. You’re supposed to be relaxed, having fun, enjoying your partner’s company and the break from your everyday. But you’re not relaxed or having fun. Your partner is annoyi...
2023-07-02 19:00:55 +0000 UTC
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Jamie stumbled out of his nursery an hour later with his hair sticking up, bleary eyed, and smelling like he’d been curled up with a dog. Amanda looked him over with a look that said, Good th...
2023-06-29 13:58:05 +0000 UTC
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Every time I travel overseas, when I wake up there after my first night’s sleep, I never remember where I am. It’s that kinda waking up where your mind is alert before your body, and you know y...
2023-06-26 22:11:57 +0000 UTC
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“Passengers on flight 315, we will begin boarding in about 10 minutes.”
I know I do most of the talking in my diary with Mary a close second, but that was the gate agent. Or as I like to ...
2023-06-21 23:54:49 +0000 UTC
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Once, when I was just a good babysitter and had a ways to go before becoming the best in town, I took one of my kiddos to their friend’s birthday party. Had I been the best babysitter back then, ...
2023-06-18 13:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Good on us for not talking about what we’d been talking about on our drive over. Instead, I talked about my friends who were going to be there. You know how hard it is to get someone excited to m...
2023-06-16 15:05:12 +0000 UTC
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How is it that someone can be pitiable and adorable at the same time? How can those two things go hand in hand, and what does it say about me that the two are definitely connected in my attraction ...
2023-06-14 23:54:08 +0000 UTC
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It was so nice of your new neighbors to host the neighborhood block party for Memorial Day. They’d only moved in a month ago, and they’d generously offered to combine their house war...
2023-06-13 19:32:15 +0000 UTC
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So here’s how this went.
“Um, Mary,” I said to Mary in such a way that the ‘um’ didn’t betray any nervousness which I wasn’t even feeling. “I, um, made you, um, a uh, card …...
2023-06-10 13:14:22 +0000 UTC
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