What Works, Varies

Mixed Nuts - All different, all nuts

As the month rolls to a close, I think it’s a good time to re-iterate a few important things about what goes on here (and not just because I still haven’t put the polish on more in-depth content.) Semi-regularly, someone wanders through this site or hears me talking about the ideas I put forward on [...]

Where do you go?

When you have questions about love and relationships, where do you go for answers? Who do you trust for advice? What makes you listen to or disregard advice that’s offered? Are you someone who people come to for relationship advice? Why do you think that is or isn’t? I ask because I’m curious. (And because [...]

The Lisa Principle: Everything I Ever Wanted*

Lisa from Weird Science
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Art & Life

Most of the definitive 80s movies I saw, I didn’t see until they hit cable or video. So, I was always at least a year behind the curve. I do remember seeing the ads on TV for Weird Science, though, and I remember wanting oh so badly to see it. Just the basic premise spoke [...]

The Cooper Constant: Childhood Love

The Wonder Years - Kevin and Winnie
This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Art & Life

Every now and then a show comes along at just the right time and matches almost perfectly what you’re going through. The Wonder Years was one of those shows for me. Sure, I was a little older than Kevin Arnold when the show started in 1988, but the memories of starting middles school were still [...]

Art Imitates Life, Life Returns the Favor

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Art & Life

Like many of my generation, I grew up on a whole lot of TV and movies. Specifically, on TV, I grew up on reruns of sitcoms from the 50s, 60s and 70s and was front and center for the “golden age” of the sitcom in the 80s and early 90s. I was indoctrinated into social [...]

Now and Later: The Truth Behind the Myth of The One

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series The One

The main problems with the idea of The One True Love of your life come from a watering down, glazing over and outright manipulation of the myths that once upon a time laid out a pretty sensible picture of love, life, relationships and romance (when there was any to be had). The Big Secret The [...]

Once Upon A Time: The Root of the Myth of The One

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series The One

Once upon a time, before humans could crisscross the globe in a matter of hours and chat with one another instantaneously from anywhere on the planet, geography was a severe limitation. Where you were born was more or less where you’d grow up, reproduce, and die. Until the high days of seafaring exploration, someone who [...]

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