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I'm alive

This was about two weeks ago: My wife was complaining about how cold it was, and she slipped her cold hands up inside my shirt to warm them against my abdomen. The shock of her cold palms against my bare skin, of course, made me flinch, but after a moment it became bearable and I let her keep...

I can't believe nine months elapsed since the last time my wife tickled me in any kind of a prolonged fashion. If you'd asked me to estimate I would've guessed it was a much briefer interval than that, but the thread doesn't lie. So family was gathered for the holidays -- this was about a week...

I don't know the year but the first one I read was set in an athletic shoe store; the employee mischievously trapped the ankles of the customer in the back office and tickled his feet mercilessly. The first couple of times I read the story I didn't even register that the employee also was male...

A couple years thereafter, when I found myself chatting with Emily -- again, long-distance, over social media -- we were getting caught up with each other's lives and she asked, out of nowhere, "So has your wife tried hunting yet?" "Stop it," I replied. "Just stop it right now." She threw me...

Aw, thank you. Compliments like that are just about enough to make me not mind enduring being forced to undergo all that wriggling and shrieking.

Emily and I reconnected some years later, mostly over social media but we also talked infrequently on the phone; not surprisingly, she continued to do very well, be very happy, to be endlessly outraged at injustices and to make the world a much better place than I've ever managed to do. She's...

A friend here on the Theater has been gently nudging me to get around to relating this story for quite a while now, so I'm finally getting around to it. Emily and I didn't date for all that long, for mostly logistical reasons; there came a time when she had to leave town to take a job across...

Sadly, self-preservation dictates that I should do exactly the opposite of that... and yet so often I just can't help myself...

Thanks, guys. I mean, I guess my wife really is the one who deserves your thanks, as she made it all happen... I was just kinda there...

I see it's been a couple of months since my wife last decided to tickle me, but I guess yesterday she decided that was quite long enough. I was pretty beat after a long day at work; I'd come home and sprawled lying on my stomach on the sofa, using the remote to churn idly through TV channels...

The capacity to emphasize: "Kitchy, kitchy, koo!"

I would promptly commence begging and bargaining, bringing all of my persuasive skills to the challenge of talking her out of it.

Thanks! As I've mentioned elsewhere, these incidents have happened over the span of years, so while you're right that there's a pretty good quantity there, my recounting here may seem to exaggerate their frequency. And your comment made me kind of reflective -- you're actually right that Sarah...

I'm not sure this is a comparison that requires that a rigorously controlled peer-reviewed study be performed.