Technology has sucked the romance out of relationships. Just ask my grandparents.
Lately I’ve been spending a lot of time with the old people in my life. Every weekend this month I have flown 3,000 miles to the East Coast to listen to them recap the stories of their youth. I have listened to them talk [...]
Posts Tagged ‘relationships’
Text fail
Posted in love, my people, tagged family, love, love lessons i learned from the old people in my life, relationships, technology on November 4, 2009 | 6 Comments »
barfly conversations
Posted in love, tagged lessons i learned from the old people in my life, love, relationships, serial upgraders, technology on August 20, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I’m pretty sure technology is ruining my love life. Either that or the problem is actually me. So naturally, I am going to assume society’s transfixion with serial upgrading to the next best thing is the reason I remain without a steady make out partner.
My theory was discussed over beers with a stranger I [...]
hopeful
Posted in love, tagged life, love, relationships on July 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I interviewed a retired professor yesterday. We were supposed to talk about his research. We were supposed to talk about how he shaped his field and impacted two generations of young scientists. We were supposed to talk about his hopes for the future. We were not supposed to talk about love.
But that is exactly [...]
a good story
Posted in love, my people, tagged anniversaries, family, relationships, writing on June 5, 2009 | 4 Comments »
MOM: Today is the 35th anniversary of the day your father and I met.
ME: Wow. What made you remember the date?
MOM: Because June 3rd is the day I met your father. Don’t you remember the day you met M —?
ME: No. But that’s probably why I’m not married to M—
As someone who is paid to [...]
fumbling through spring
Posted in love, tagged gay marriage, love, relationships on May 26, 2009 | 5 Comments »
There is a troublesome moment when you discover your heart slipped through the cracks and went and fell in love again. The moment is fleeting, typically some tiny instance the other person remembers as an afterthought, if at all, a moment that leaves you shaken and smiling to yourself on the bus and wondering how [...]
What we want…a work in progress
Posted in love, tagged life partners, love, relationships, what women want on May 6, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Earlier this week a male friend asked me to collaborate with him on a start up venture certain to change the world, certain to make him/us money. Naturally I was interested in learning the finer details of his surefire plan. I like helping people. I like money.
While I cannot reveal the scope of the business, [...]
12 hours later and still confused
Posted in love, tagged douchebag moves, Eagle vs. Shark, love, movie night, relationships on May 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been awhile since I watched a film that made me a bit uncomfortable. But Eagle vs. Shark is one that is endearing and honest and depressingly funny. It strikes a nerve with anyone who has felt they never quite fit in, anyone who has been in love or thinks they have.
Yesterday our Sunday Night [...]
love and one giant plane crash
Posted in love, tagged love, miscommunicating, Outliers, relationships on March 30, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I just finished reading the chapter in Outliers explaining the ethnic theory of airplane crashes and realized how similar flying an aircraft is to ending a relationship. Both are just one giant crash landing – some just have better results than others.
From the statistics author Malcolm Gladwell includes, I learned that most fatal accidents [...]
still miscommunicating?
Posted in all, tagged language fail, love, miscommunications, relationships on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Humans have used words to communicate for thousands of years. Our vocal chords were designed for speech. They are what differentiate us from the rest of the animals. (Well, that and our bipedal stature, our beautiful and complicated brain, and our lips made for kissing). Yet, somehow, men and women cannot seem to understand each [...]
more conversations with a boy
Posted in love, tagged conversations with a boy, love, relationships on February 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I fell into a rather interesting conversation with a boy today. It began innocently enough with us discussing a quote from the morning paper and turned into a deeper discussion about love. Now, whether you are the type of person who tests the water before jumping, or hurls yourself full force into it, I have [...]
