I still bought women’s magazines at the grocery store, trying to pass as a husband shopping for a wife at home instead of a man living alone with a shopping cart full of two dozen frozen steak burritos. I hated living in a man’s house, with a man’s refrigerator and a man’s bathroom. A man-woman bathroom only takes a couple of weeks to become a man’s bathroom when the woman is no longer there. What a demotion: exiled to a bachelor pad. You know the Johnny Paycheck song “The Feminine Touch,” or the George Jones song “Things Have Gone to Pieces”? Another thing only country singers understand. One
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