Warren, my young, hot boyfriend, came over on Monday night. Euphemistically speaking, we played Yahtzee and Scrabble. The next morning, I emailed him a picture of a bucket of mackerels. I also made sure I thanked him at least forty times throughout the day, telling him how much I enjoyed the unexpected visit and his amazing skills at, uh, shaking the cup and rolling the dice and really knowing how to lay down those tiles, if you know what I’m saying. I’m sure Warren knew what the mackerel picture was about and I have little doubt that he was aware of what I was up to with all the praise. Because Warren and I both spent some time last week reading Amy Sutherland’s new book, What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love and Marriage. And in doing so, we learned techniques once reserved for animal training which, Sutherland has discovered, work remarkably well on humans. ...