Tips of how to stay young.

Short story about valentine’s day reflections.

Joes mom cracks under the weight of all of the revelations of the past 24 hours. Then something happens to make Joe snap.

Stop smoking; start breathing.

Have you ever stopped trying to accomplish a thing or stop trying to reach a goal that you were trying to reach. Afterwards you come to the conclusion that you could have done everything that was in your power to do but you just quit too soon.

I let you know everything has side effects, and I think people should try to educate themselves on what every they take.

This is a method I used to stop smoking.

Knowing my father had just quit smoking; my mother would blow her cigarette smoke across the table at him after dinner, just to be spiteful. When my husband was quitting, every time he craved a cigarette, there was blowing of a different sort involved, but it was done to help him quit and that pretty much clearly illustrates the difference between my mother’s and my approach to marriage.

Reach out for help.

Poem – six six-line stanzas

creates an analogy between smoking cigarettes and having a mistress and the
difficulty of quitting – successful ending.