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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Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.
I officially gave up trying to learn French at the end of last week. My new goal is to learn Canadian. I have been listening intently to speech patterns and polishing up my “eh” usage. I think I am improving dramatically with each passing day. But yesterday the group of French telecommunication workers that stayed [...]
Move over Harlequin novel and meet real life…
What does it take to connect to someone? Is it a shared ideology, a physical attraction, a knowing glance…what is it? Can it be all or any of the above? Is it as individual as two individuals can be? Does it require shared experiences, lifestyles, goals, language? Does it have to last a lifetime, years, [...]
“IF YOU KNEW MY MOTHER YOU WOULD UNDERSTAND.”
I saw a t-shirt for young women in JC Penney's weekly advertisement yesterday that read, "IF YOU KNEW MY MOTHER YOU WOULD UNDERSTAND." I think my daughter Sarah has actually said that - numerous times. I was tempted to buy that t-shirt for her, but then it occurred to me that it would only cause her to wear it and then she [...]