My reluctant charity shames both me and the recipient.
Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.
The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental.
Machismo makes no provision for preparing lunch, doing the laundry, or minding the baby.
Yawns are hard to refute.
My mind no longer has romantic abysses, but has become shallow, with many little gaps and cracks.