Damn, I’m in an unusually ponderous mood.  I blame the weather. I’ve been trying for days to wrap up my thoughts on this with a nice little bow.  I thought I should because it’s an issue I’ve raised many times before, and now it’s so very timely.  The “it” in that sentence being the relationship [...]

So, John Hughes died last week.  That was sad.  He was still pretty young (only 59) and he was one of those people who had an impact on a lot of us.   I was a teenager in the 80s and I distinctly remember sitting in movie theaters watching Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club.  Over [...]

I took last week off from dating.  It wasn’t really something I’d planned.  I had a date planned for Friday afternoon.  But then Friday morning came along and I had a bunch of other things I wanted to do and I wasn’t feeling well and well… I guess I just wasn’t excited enough about the [...]