Sometimes when you hit send, you can imagine the message going straight into the person's heart. But other times, like this time, it feels like the words are merely falling into a well.

Even though it was hard to see you, it was good to see you.

In Sliding Doors, the whole idea is that every choice you make, and every single thing that happens to you changes the trajectory of your life, and once you are put on that trajectory, there is no way back. But Groundhog Day - which, I tell him, also happens to be a much better movie - says the opposite. It says if you mess up or make the wrong choice, you just have to keep at it until you do it right.

The words that matter always stay.

Laughter rarely lasts longer than a few seconds, it's true. But how enjoyable those few seconds are.

lying awake beside you, these thoughts run through my head.

Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.