Two friends discuss relationships and other mysteries of life.
Posted in Life on Aug 24th, 2011
Last week, as I was washing dishes, I heard a story come on the news talking about how Facebook is causing depression for some people. Now, I didn’t doubt this for a second because I know that there is a certain segment of the population that will look for any reason to be depressed. I [...]
Posted in communication on Jun 16th, 2011
I received a text message from my daughter that read, “What’s for dinner?” The only thing that makes this worth mentioning is that she was sitting right next to me. But that’s how people communicate these days. This isn’t an isolated case. Four people bumped into me at the grocery store [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, friends, relationships on Jun 12th, 2011
During my junior year in college, I walked into the lobby of my dorm one afternoon and saw a man in a high school letter jacket. More to the point, a letter jacket from my high school, with my graduation year on the sleeve. The odd thing was, I didn’t recognize the guy at all. [...]
Posted in relationships on Aug 12th, 2010
I was at the local home center looking for seeds to start my garden when one of the store workers asked me if I needed any help. I wasn’t entirely certain what I wanted to grow in this garden, I was going to make that decision based on what I saw. However, I [...]
Posted in relationships, single parent dating on Apr 8th, 2010
In her recent post, Tiffany points out that the “friend zone” is a mythical place. Personally, I don’t think that the “friend zone” is a zone at all. I think it’s more of a place in time. It’s a page or even a chapter in our lives where we are simply not open to romantic [...]
Posted in dating drama, friend zone, men on Apr 4th, 2010
We’ve been getting comments from men asking for advice on avoiding the “friend zone”, and I’ve got good news for them. You’re not doing anything wrong. There’s no such thing as the “friend zone”. At least, not in the sense that men seem to dread it, as a big black hole waiting to swallow up [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, men, relationships, women on Feb 18th, 2010
What I didn’t know was that full-grown adults–not college kids in their early twenties with one foot in their parents’ homes but thirty-something professionals with careers and condos and supposed lives of their own–were still looking to their friends to hold up numerical scores while their dates “performed”.
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