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I’ve been single off and on for the past 4 years. Sometimes, single men ask me (in a chat up sort of way), “So … why are you still single?” To me, that question is absurd. It comes from a worldview that sees people as needing a reason for being single. And that makes no…
Last night, I went to OpenMind at The Grove. Afterwards, I was chatting with a couple of song writers about song writing, and one of them (Dariush Kanani) said something about how the best songs happen when you don’t try to make the song be a certain way, but just allow it to unfold and…
I’ve felt like an outsider all my life since I first began interacting socially with people outside of my family. My earliest memory of a social interaction is from when I was 4. My sister and brother and I were playing on the sidewalk with two sisters who lived down the street. The elder sister and…
Over the past 2 years (ish) I’ve seen engagement on my Facebook go down, down, down (as Candace of Phineas & Ferb fame might say). For quite awhile now, my Facebook page has been fairly useless as a means of communicating to the people who have joined it. The Grim Statistics See the handy screenshot of my…
I generally avoid keeping up with news, but from time to time, a story crosses my radar. I reckon friends will tell me about anything really important. Today, I heard some news and was drawn in despite my general news avoidance. I read the media reports and watched video footage and wept. And I’m not…