For reading between the lines with greater comprehension
Raise your hand if you think you’re above average in integrity, honesty, fair-mindedness, realism, kindness, generosity or any other virtue. Now look around you. Way more than half of us have our hands up. That’s a problem. More than half of us can’t be above average. OK, so how do we sort out the virtue-posers […]
Why do some break ups hit us so hard when others don’t? The most obvious answer is that we’re hard-hit when we’re heartbroken, missing our lost lover. But I don’t think that’s the whole story. It’s perhaps the most self-honoring way to describe our devastation, but it’s more complicated than that. The next most obvious […]
I recently lunched with my friend Greg, an entrepreneur and enthusiastic libertarian. We chatted about our love lives and day jobs first and once warmed up, turned to politics, a touchy subject between us. He opened with proud absolute certainty that freedom solved everything. I asked for evidence, and he provided a careful selection: Democracy […]
For my daughter’s birthday I wrote her a song, ending it on a powerful heartfelt line. Time with you is worth missing. My partner said, “Are you sure you mean that?” “Yes,” I insisted, a little surprised that she wondered. With an artful turn of phrase I had captured just what I felt. I miss […]
It feels personal but it isn’t. It’s a new epidemic,, with clear origins in radical if un-noticed changes in the shape of society. Mid-life single women, does any of this feel familiar to you? I used to have a lot more guys looking at me, flattering, flirting with me, and asking me out. Now sometimes […]
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