Have you ever noticed that when you are with certain people, you feel so alive, so energetic, but when you are with other people, you feel so drained, so tired? When I was teaching a course in metaphysics, I ran across an obscure term called zapper. Nowadays, we think of a zapper as an electronic device. The dictionary defines it as (a) an electronic device designed to attract and kill insects, (b) a person who habitually changes channels (as to …
Let me start out by saying I don’t like emoticons and I don’t use them. My rationale is that I don’t see authors using them in the books I read because they credit the reader with being intelligent enough to read a passage and know whether the author was being sarcastic, humorous, sorrowful, apologetic, angry, pleased, rude, cavalier, or a whole host of other emotional responses. To this day, I have refused to memorize what those silly things mean because …
In my day, women married young, had babies when they were scarcely past their own childhood, and also divorced at a fairly young age. I remember hearing mothers telling their very intelligent daughters not to let their boyfriends think they were smart because otherwise, they would end up as old maids. They were also told to work as secretaries until they married the boss (it’s just as easy to fall in love with a rich man as a poor man) …
I may not be the smartest person on the planet, but I’m not the dumbest, either . . . EXCEPT . . . when I make dumb decisions. It’s at those times that I question my intelligence. We all make mistakes. That’s a given. So why do we think that we have to make great decisions every single time? It’s not even realistic because, as humans, we’re not perfect and, therefore, we will make mistakes. Not just from time to …
Many college students who are blessed with a beautiful body and a great mind are paying for their college education with jobs as strippers. They go to school during the day and then they go to their night jobs as a stripper in various dance clubs. These women aren’t airheads. Some are studying law, psychology, political science, and different careers in the science fields. And most of them are straight A students. Tuition has gotten so expensive that students find …
The concept of renting a man has gone through some evolutionary changes. One of my earlier clients was a paid escort. He was usually paid by the evening or by the week and he was required to know all the social skills. He escorted women to weddings, charity events, family reunions, and vacations all over the world so they wouldn’t have to go to those functions alone. Sex was optional. The paid escort was different from a gigolo in that …