Ever find yourself daydreaming? Doesn't it always seem to happen at the worst possible time? While you're at work, or behind the wheel, or fishing...

Floating weightlessly across the sand 80 feet down, like a gull on the wind, drifting sideways in warm currents with color swimming all around, the odd little sea creatures everywhere, curious fishes hiding in corals, how the surface breaks the light as it illuminates the ocean's real treasures with the clarity of a diamond.

As the Monets and the Renoirs remind you to breathe again, from William Turner to Alfred Sisly, impressionistic works that capture moments so timeless, yet tell a different story up close. The way light plays a part. The way creativity ignites emotion.

The way a fat red zin explodes with flavor, changing texture as it rolls around your mouth like the tides. Tasting the subtle differences between variety and age, entirely consumed by the delicious green countryside from which the vineyards flourish.

Huh? What? For a second, I thought I was...

My perfect first date is a non-date. It's two people being together and getting to know each other. How about we stay in the moment and explore? If we get past that, then the romance will flow easily if it's there to be shared. In other words, I don't date. I connect and explore the possibility of what can happen.