There are so many issues that factor into why the divorce rate is so high and I can agree with most of them. We hear about people growing apart, different goals, different expectations, different communication styles, financial problems, changes in personality, and the list is endless. But the one thing I don’t see is something more basic as to be overlooked, and that is boredom. It takes me two years of seeing the best and the worst of a person’s …
With all the different styles of communication that I’ve encountered, I have the most difficulty with people who go on and on but say nothing. It’s not that they have nothing to say, it’s more that in their heads they think they are saying something important because their thoughts have been rumbling around in their heads so long that it makes a lot of sense to them. Unfortunately, for the rest of us, by the time it comes out of …
I have often said that technology is ruining relationships and, to a large extent, I still believe that. I still think that when you want to break up with your partner, it should be done in person, not sent as a text message. Same, too, when you want to quit your job and you are in the same geographical location, it should be done in person, not sent as an email or a text message. Of course, it should be …
Can you imagine seeing your sex life documented on a spreadsheet? How would you react to seeing a record kept by your spouse that you had turned him down twenty-seven times over the last couple of months, only allowing him in your bed three times? Apparently, a frustrated 26-year-old man felt he had no other recourse than to communicate his dissatisfaction with his sex life than to document how many times his wife turned him down for sex over a …
I’ve heard of child prodigies and have even seen a few, but I’ve never heard of a toddler who had the intellectual capacity and the verbal or written ability, to communicate effectively, to plan a murder and interfere with state affairs. Yet, in Pakistan, that is exactly what happened. A 9-month-old boy was carried into court in the arms of his father – TWICE! – on charges of attempted murder and interfering with state affairs, and this was even after …
I keep wondering how much lower our educational standards can go and it keeps surpassing all of my lowest expectations. The SAT college entrance exam used to be standard fare. There were multiple choice questions and essay questions and just about every other kind of questions. There was no studying for it in my day; you were just tested on everything you had ever learned. Over the years, the SATs have changed but now it is changing so substantially that …
We keep thinking that we are the most technologically advanced civilization in the history of the world but there continues to be proof that we are not. Archeologists keep finding tools from ancient civilizations that are in keeping with the tools we use in the modern world. They have found tools that resemble our modern scalpels so we can assume they had a knowledge of surgery and the human body. We already know that their use of herbs was the …
Do you ever wonder about things that make no sense at the moment but the thoughts stay with you continuously through the years? Unfortunately, I’m one of those people who does just that. I look at the books on my library shelves and I know that I’ll never get around to reading all of them because I keep adding more of them than I can read, but I’d like to know what’s in each and every book that I have. …
According to the U.S. Federal Communication Commission, the ban on in-flight cell phone calls may be lifted next month. The new rule would still prohibit calls from being made during takeoff and landing but once the plane reaches 10,000 feet, flyers would be allowed to text, surf the Internet, and make cell phone calls during their flight. So what happened to all the horror stories we’ve been fed about the signals from cell phones interfering with the electronics of the …
Do primitive tribes really exist? Every so often, someone comes forth from the jungles of wherever and announces, in some kind of communication, that they have been living in the jungle for forty years and has never had contact with civilization. I guess the reality shows that have dominated television these past several years, make me wonder if this is true or if this is another form of TV entertainment. When reality TV first hit the small screen, people were …