Category: How to Crush

The Seven Types of Crushes

Tweet You’ve all heard me mention the book I’m working on. If we hang out, you’ve heard me pitch it more than a few times. Well, I’ve actually been doing work on it (not just talking about it) in an effort to get some sort of web presence set up by about this time next… Continue reading The Seven Types of Crushes

And So It Begins…

Tweet Over the weekend, I was doing some quick research regarding the marketability of the book I’m working on. You know, the one about crushes that I’ve mentioned a few times now to some people (tentatively titled “How to Crush Without Being Crushed”… working on website ideas, too). This involved browsing the “Relationship” stacks at… Continue reading And So It Begins…

My Three Maidens

This entry is part [part not set] of 3 in the series Three Maidens

Tweet At the end of seventh grade, a wonderful young woman took the time to sit down next to me one day at the end of a band period. There had been a particularly obvious display of how my peers treated me that day. Her boyfriend at the time was involved in that display. It… Continue reading My Three Maidens

Convention-al Crush (Or ‘How I Got to Know Kristen by Accidentally Becoming an Actor’)

This entry is part [part not set] of 3 in the series Three Maidens

Tweet After three hellish years in middle school, I was determined to make as clean a start as possible in high school. I was back in with people I could relate to better (those a year ahead of me) and there was a larger pool of potential friends (a whole extra year, as a matter… Continue reading Convention-al Crush (Or ‘How I Got to Know Kristen by Accidentally Becoming an Actor’)

Lessons Learned: That Green Eyed Monster

Tweet My years at college were very busy by just about any standard. A lot of things were started. But one of the most painful and educational things that happened that year started the summer before I left for school. And it started in New Orleans. Between my last year of high school and my… Continue reading Lessons Learned: That Green Eyed Monster

Lessons Learned: Your Buddies and Your Crushes

Tweet Yep. I’m back on a slight relationship thinking track again. I think I’ll blame this one on seeing The 40 Year Old Virgin (which, if you haven’t seen it yet, you should–especially if you’re a guy). Or, maybe, I’ll just point to the fact that Friends and the lessons I’ve learned in the past… Continue reading Lessons Learned: Your Buddies and Your Crushes