The coldest winter is a summer in San Fran and the most stressful event is a birthday party Making lists for the day, for the week, for the month and for the year is an entrenched part of our modern-day lives. For the last few weeks there has […]
Birds of a feather when it comes to friends and money: Who foots the restaurant bill? When I started college, I noticed an odd thing in regards to first-year college roommates. They all seemed to have been placed together based on height. All pairs were […]
Mirror, Mirror no longer on the wall: How will I know I am the fairest of them all? The psychological end of summer is here and it is time to take stock of a few things? Did we look good in that bathing suit? Did we […]
Thelma and Louise in the Workplace: The Psychology of a Different Type of Female Friendship The workplace and in day-to-day life there are many labeled types of “unconventional” yet conventional relationships. We have the Will and Grace relationship-types that exist in day-to-day life and in the work […]
I need a robot to clean up my scattered mess – or not: The psychology of a messy free mind Without any doubt in anyone’s mind I am an extremely messy person. I take immense pride in that messiness. The messier the better in my view […]
Inopportune events work in mysterious ways After so many years in the workplace, so man trips and just having a child, I have learned that things rarely happen the way they are supposed to or how they have been scripted to occur. Whenever I have put on […]
Please don’t send me flowers: Unless it is in a cocktail I love flowers. I love their beauty and imminent nostalgia that is attached to them. Flowers evoke memories of yore. They evoke memories of the sun and the grass and a certain amount of whimsy. I […]
Summertime Memories: The scent of a mother I’m listening to the song “the Funeral” and feel an overwhelming sense of déjà vu while sad, yet nondescript memories come flooding into my stream of consciousness. To the outside the dead leaves, they’re on the lawn Before they died, […]
My summertimes in childhood were actually not that memorable. We didn’t travel anywhere as we had no money. The summer streets of the South Bronx were sweltering hot and teeming with with an undercurrent of naughtiness. As I grew older in boarding school and college, summertime represented a […]
No Time For Procrastination: the Gates of Hades are Opening in Two Weeks What will you be doing July 27th 2014? As I noted last summer to many’s delight and fright, the Gates of Hades are opening soon. See, here is the thing the month of July […]