Manther, Silver Fox,  Lizard, Dingo, Shark.
A rose by any other name is still a rose!

Posted by Gayle

This article is just downright cute…. that is if you choose to not take  yourself too seriously and just enjoy the irony of life.  Now that the moniker “cougar” has become a part of pop culture it seems we’re desperate to give older men a name too. I chuckle about all of this, but truly I wonder why we just can’t call him “him” and call her “her”.  In a day and age where we are so worried about political correctness how is it okay for us to hang labels on people based on the age of their partner?  I’m really not trying to get radical here.  I just find it damned ironic.   The good no, great news is that articles about May-December (uh oh, I’m guilty of it too aren’t I?!) relationships are popping up on the internet faster than I can post them.

So please read the article below with a light heart and let it give you a giggle.  You’ll also note that the piece links you to many other May-December tidbits.

What Do You Call A Guy Cougar? – MORE Magazine.

Uh…Ohhhhhhh

Posted by Gayle

We lost power to the house two hours ago. There is no good reason why. The snow storm is long over and the ice has melted.

This is when December’s skill at being a handy man comes in “handy” so to speak. He’s outside working to get our generator running. I appreciate the ability and wisdom his many years of fixing things brings to our marriage. He learned at the right hand of his father and then in turn passed the skills on to his son.

I wish more people would take the time to pass on their talents to their children. Do you know what yours are? What will you do to share them with someone you love?

A mobile post from the Berry!

It’s been a while since we’ve been out for fun. So the first thing we did was grab a burger and a beer!

A mobile post from the Berry!

Hmmmmm. Has she gone crazy with her posting via email? Perhaps you ask what does chocolate have to do with age gap relationships? Let’s face it chocolate has something to with everything! Gotta go. Cadbury is calling!!

A mobile post from the Berry!

Apparently Gayle and I do!

(Posted by Ron)

Hey there everyone.  Did we fall off the face of the earth?   Not exactly, but sometimes it feels like that.  In fact, we took a hiatus from the blog so that we could spend the time preparing agent query letters and book proposals.  Next will be sample chapters.  Yes, it’s time to finally get to writing this book we’ve been talking about for so long.

It’s funny how agents don’t think like me.  I believe this May-December topic is so important and timely that literary agents should be falling all over themselves to represent us.  It doesn’t seem to be this way – yet that is.  We have learned something about rejection letters, however.  They run the gamut from no response at all, to “It’s intriguing, but I’m not wild about it, and  to “thanks, but that’s not what I’m focusing on right now.”  The last agent rejection letter tells us that (at least some) agents actually read our query.

She had some very thoughts for us to consider as we continue our search.  The one that really stuck with me is that we need an agent who is passionate about our May-December subject and us as authors.  Makes sense to me.

Today I needed to see my work in print somewhere; blogging seemed like a good idea. We know you are out there. You continue to come to the blog whether we have an agent or not!   We know you are interested and are looking for guidance in your relationships.

So, dear readers, thank you for hanging around even when new material was not forthcoming.  We appreciate your interest.  We’ve even gotten some agent information from a few of our clients/friends/readers.  Before I bring this short note to a close let me say this.  There are some of you who know literary agents.  Some of you may even be agents.  If anything in this blog has been of interest or help to you , please let those agents know about us or  tell us about them.  We will be happy to make the contact.  You can email any such information to me at ron@maydecembersecrets.com.  I’ll be glad to take it from there.  In the meantime, fingers crossed we keep moving forward.  Just like we do in our relationship – one day at a time.