I'm here in Atenas, a small town in Costa Rica that's supposed to have the most perfect weather in the world. So far, I believe this. We leave the doors open all the time, and it never gets too hot or too cold. It is always the same, every day. The view from the house where we're staying is . . .
Do nice guys really finish last?
I like reading David DeAngelo's column over at AskMen.com, mostly because his ideas about women and dating are pretty old-school male theories...like the advice you'd get at a pick-up artist convention. The main goal is to have as much success with as many women as possible, and the way to do it is . . .
Getting to the finish line…
Ok, I admit it. Deadlines work for me. I like knowing that I have to hand in an article by 3pm, or that my dry cleaning needs to be picked up by 6. I work best under structure. My former career in PR made me an expert in scheduling. I had to fit in 5 radio interviews in exchange for 10 . . .
Do you apologize too much?
I read a study recently that found women were more likely to apologize than men. Go figure, I thought. But apparently, it's not about owning up to bad behavior; both men and women will apologize if they feel they've done something wrong. It's that men have a "higher threshold" for bad . . .
Balancing act: friends vs. boyfriend
This is a topic I have thought about a lot over my life. When I was in high school and just out of college, I tended to get wrapped up in the lives of my boyfriends. I didn't go out much with my friends, I didn't call...I became a "girlfriend of" instead of a friend. I'm ashamed of this, but it's . . .
Bad habits:1, Tolerance:1
I had a boyfriend in college whose roommate would clean his ears with Q-tips and then leave them scattered around the bathroom and closets instead of throwing them away. At one point, my boyfriend found one in his shoe. "That's it," he declared. "No more Qtips!" The Qtip dilemma stopped for . . .