I often say, "Be careful what you wish for!" I say this because things don't always play out in practice the way we think they will. When Mike first hurt his knee three months ago I was appropriately horrified. Horrified for him as the extent of the injury was unknown; horrified for me because Nurse [...]
Tag: relationships
New underwear?
When folks engage in affairs (emotional, physical, or both) they enter a mental and emotional state wherein their ability to maintain clarity and sensibility about the realities of life fade away. It is a state that produces a fog very similar to new love, but that is complicated by the covert nature of the relationship - the [...]
Where is the love?
I was dumped. Unceremoniously and without much of an apology...which leaves me asking this Valentine's Day - Where is the love? There is something about rejection that is so deflating. It causes one to wonder - what about me was not good enough? What caused the break-up of something that was once so promising? Of course, [...]
Sugar babies?
OMG! The liberal-minded adult in me just wants to scream, "EWWWWWWWWWWWW!" I must be getting old or wise or jaded or something. When I saw the article in The Forum titled - Site to find 'sugar daddies' popular with college students - my immediate thought was the candy. I was such a huge fan of [...]
Day-in and day-out.
If you have just stumbled upon The New Forty you may not have yet realized that this is a daily blog. By that I mean that every day since my first day of blogging here on Area Voices I have created a blog post. Today marks day eight hundred and eighty-two of The New Forty. [...]
Am I a Focker?
I am living a Meet the Parents moment this holiday weekend. If you are familiar with the movie starring Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro you know that Ben Stiller, who plays Greg Focker, spends a weekend meeting his girlfriend's parents. During the weekend, despite Focker's best intent, everything that can go wrong, goes wrong. I am [...]
Eh?
I am in Toronto, Canada today speaking at the Emergency and Disaster Planning Summit for colleges, universities, and K-12 schools. I am fortunate to have been asked to speak about Teen CERT - a program near and dear to my heart. Even more fortunate though is the fact that three of my favorite colleagues are [...]
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