Bring It To The Table

Tweet In some of the things you’ll read here, I talk about balance and equality in relationships. Even if what the individuals involved are contributing different things to the relationship, those contributions should be equitable. If one is putting in a lot more than the other, that can throw off the balance of a relationship… Continue reading Bring It To The Table

The Lisa Principle: Everything I Ever Wanted*

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Tweet Most of the definitive 80s movies I saw, I didn’t see until they hit cable or video. So, I was always at least a year behind the curve. I do remember seeing the ads on TV for Weird Science, though, and I remember wanting oh so badly to see it. Just the basic premise… Continue reading The Lisa Principle: Everything I Ever Wanted*

The Cooper Constant: Childhood Love

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Tweet Every now and then a show comes along at just the right time and matches almost perfectly what you’re going through. The Wonder Years was one of those shows for me. Sure, I was a little older than Kevin Arnold when the show started in 1988, but the memories of starting middles school were… Continue reading The Cooper Constant: Childhood Love

Art Imitates Life, Life Returns the Favor

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Tweet Like many of my generation, I grew up on a whole lot of TV and movies. Specifically, on TV, I grew up on reruns of sitcoms from the 50s, 60s and 70s and was front and center for the “golden age” of the sitcom in the 80s and early 90s. I was indoctrinated into… Continue reading Art Imitates Life, Life Returns the Favor

Now and Later: The Truth Behind the Myth of The One

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Tweet The main problems with the idea of The One True Love of your life come from a watering down, glazing over and outright manipulation of the myths that once upon a time laid out a pretty sensible picture of love, life, relationships and romance (when there was any to be had). The Big Secret… Continue reading Now and Later: The Truth Behind the Myth of The One

Once Upon A Time: The Root of the Myth of The One

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Tweet Once upon a time, before humans could crisscross the globe in a matter of hours and chat with one another instantaneously from anywhere on the planet, geography was a severe limitation. Where you were born was more or less where you’d grow up, reproduce, and die. Until the high days of seafaring exploration, someone… Continue reading Once Upon A Time: The Root of the Myth of The One