I want to live in a world without email. I wonder if that world exists anywhere except in the backwoods of West Virginia or in a padded room somewhere. I wonder how emailing so quickly took over our lives as quickly as it did. A couple of decades ago email was not the number one [...]
Tag: communication
There really should be confetti…
Sometimes Cheyenne is a really funny kid. It is difficult to imagine when I hear her prattle on and on about the types of things 13 year olds find endlessly amusing that she was quite shy when she was young. Back then she didn't talk much in public and she would close her eyes whenever she was around [...]
The power of the written word…
My dear boyfriend slipped a note into my carry-on before I left the house yesterday. I discovered it on the plane headed toward Minneapolis. I used the note as a bookmark for my book, but the truth is I read and re-read the note more than I read the book. I am not sure what [...]
Deleted.
I receive over 100 emails a day across my two main email accounts on a slow day. Of those emails I typically delete about 25% outright, read 25% before deleting or filing them, respond to another 25% and retain the remaining 25% emails in files to read or respond to later. On a day when I am [...]
A note to Jersey boy’s mom…
A natural part of getting involved with someone is that eventually your extended lives begin to intermingle. Family and friends start to give the new person in your life the once-over, assessments are made and hopefully, stamps of approval are given by those that matter in your life. The process of introducing a new person [...]
A dog can be a companion…
I cannot begin to imagine the things that hair stylists hear from their clients. I can say to a moral certainty though that hair stylists must be in possession of enough interesting information to quit doing hair and create a blackmail empire. Which leads me to wonder - is there a stylist/client privilege? Perhaps there [...]
Flirting is an art…
I believe that flirting done well is an art. The trick is to find the balance between tantalizing and non-threatening, playful and serious, and subtlety and directness. Yet the true art is not in understanding the parameters, it is in being able to assess the balance required for each situation and each individual. Flirting, when [...]
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