Tag / relationships

  I was in my kitchen last night when this topic, par­tic­u­larly as it relates to rela­tion­ships, popped into my head. This post is really a first-person account. Regret­tably,  I have spent a good part of my life work­ing around prob­lems, often not solv­ing them — let alone dis­cov­er­ing the gen­e­sis of fric­tion and strife. Unfortunately, […]

In the past cou­ple of weeks, a friend (who is gay) told me that two peo­ple asked him if I was gay. It appears that the com­mon thread is that I am con­sid­ered sen­si­tive. I guess, more sen­si­tive than one would expect a straight male to be. (more on this later) I didn’t have a […]

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In the midst of exchang­ing cards, flow­ers, candy, and trin­kets, let’s all maan attempt to really lis­ten to our loved ones. Lis­ten atten­tively, and pay par­tic­u­lar atten­tion to what’s not being spo­ken just as much as the words uttered. Read between the lines, if you will. In my opin­ion, there’s a rea­son why so many people […]

If there was any doubt that the def­i­n­i­tion of mas­culin­ity is being ques­tioned, one only needed to tune into the Super­bowl last week. Sure, I’m able to chuckle at these com­mer­cials. How­ever, prob­a­bly because I’m what would be likely be referred to as “a sen­si­tive guy,” I am a lit­tle trou­bled by the grow­ing trend to […]

I was lis­ten­ing to NPR on the way into work this morn­ing — pri­mar­ily because my $%*@! Zune keeps act­ing up. (Breath) Any­way, I tuned in near the begin­ning of a piece about the bur­geon­ing new par­a­digm of women mak­ing more money than their sig­nif­i­cant oth­ers and the atten­dant issues with this real­ity. Per­haps in […]

Ok. I am NOW offi­cially trip­pin’! Just a cou­ple of days ago, I com­mented that I have no appetite to hear about the details of Tiger’s fam­ily tur­moil. Let him work it out.  Since that post, just about every cloud in the sky has fallen and Tiger is now look­ing like the Don Draper of […]