Have you found your soul mate? Have you been told that you are some-one’s soul mate? Why is that always in the singular? Soul-mate. Only ever in the plural when referring to the mated couple. Are we only allowed the…
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How do I get a person to fall in love with me? The bad news is: you don’t! You cannot make somebody love you… because it isn’t wholly about you… it’s largely about them. It’s about the sameness and the…
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February 11, 2015 Communication
How can you possibly allow that? How do you know what she gets up to? Don’t you mind? ~ and variations on the theme ~ are the questions my partner is subjected to, whenever he admits that I will, yet…
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October 16, 2014 Friends and Peers
Friendship is that best of all comforts – one that is freely given, freely taken, upon which nothing and everything depends. Friends come and go, some are with us always, others for a season, and likewise are we for others. …
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Why do women buy shoes that hurt their feet? For the same reason we dye our hair and spend vast fortunes on potions and creams that, other than the aroma-therapeutic effect are doing little more for us than grandma’s cold…
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