What are these things you ask? These are the 2 events that are putting a serious cramp in my social life…not to mention they’re responsible for my neglecting this website. Allow me to explain lovely readers. Back in February I recognized that I was once again feeling lethargic and practically brain dead, which is perfectly [...]
Anyone who has the pleasure (and displeasure) of knowing me will readily testify in a court of law that I love to generalize. I do it all the time. I even begin most of my sentences by saying “I know I’m generalizing but…”. I can’t tell you how much my generalizations on any given topic [...]
When I was a teenager, my mom and dad never had to worry about me like some parents did with their adolescents. I didn’t sneak out of the house, I didn’t do any underage drinking or drugs, there was no chance of my getting pregnant, and I had great marks in school…except in math of [...]
A little over four years ago, my friends Dani and Elizabeth sat me down for what I like to call an EMOTIONAL INTERVENTION. When I reflect upon this moment, I think I would have preferred they intervene in my life because I was an alcoholic, or a drug addict, or even because I was too [...]
“In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.” – Graham Greene “Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.” – Clare Booth Luce “They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.” – Plato Back in the summer of 1998, I discovered that [...]
“Those who are faithless know the pleasures of love; it is the faithful who know love’s tragedies.” – Oscar Wilde “It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.” – Brigitte Bardot “When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity.” – [...]
I’ve been so busy with work and cleaning up skeletons in my closet that Attic Tales’ second anniversary was not only completely ignored but also forgotten. Does that mean that writing Mostly Harmless columns has become less important to me? Absolutely not! It just means that I have to cut down on my drin…never mind.
While I’m not the most successful person when it comes to relationships, I can however boast that I do have thriving friendships…even though I don’t always call you back Carly, or forget your birthday for the first time ever Marlene, or don’t hang out with you enough Mounir…um yeah…thriving friendships…yay me!
Naggers always know what they are doing. They weigh up the risks; then they go on and on and on until they get what they want or until they get punched. – Jools Holland Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths. – Edith Summerskill I’m currently suffering from one of the worst colds [...]
They say that one of the hardest things to do in life is to say you’re sorry. Well whoever they are…they know what they’re talking about…self-righteous know-it-all-bastards. Sorry.
