Life

I have dozens of good ideas each week — at times, each day. But only a small percentage of them ever come fruition. Why? Well, I’m busy (I mean, Facebook needs to be updated and laundry needs to be done). But another main barrier is procrastination. W …

I get pretty sleepy around this time in the afternoon. Mostly I just suffer through it and do something akin to sleep-working for the rest of the day. Sometimes I can’t even remember what I did between the hours of 1:30-3:30 PM (not really). It’s why I …

Quick question: Who was the bad boy in your youth group? Or, presently, who’s the bad boy in your singles group? I don’t know about you, but the name popped immediately to my mind — and I thought about that guy as I read a recent Girls Gone Wise post b …

…people besides her family? Here’s why the question’s on my mind. A couple days ago I had the pleasure of attending a retirement luncheon for my mother, who’s been a secretary (officially, “office support specialist,” but she has no use for the title …

Yesterday, Thomas Jeffries considered whether or not Boundless is biased against guys because it challenges them to take the lead in relationships, pay for dates and be less visually oriented in their assessment of women. You gave some interesting feed …

OK, I’ve mangled the line by Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, but a recent news story put that quote in mind — but with a twist. Scientists writing for the Journal of Neuroscience discovered that giving men a dose of the hormone oxytocin gave …

As I’ve said before, I get many of my ideas for this blog just by reading the reader comments. One theme that has come up quite a bit recently is the perception that Boundless is biased — sometimes subtly, sometimes not so subtly — against men. Some …

Over the past year or so I’ve been learning a lot about love. Only it didn’t end up being the lesson I thought it would be. As is the case with a lot of us, I usually think of love in a romantic context. And certainly that’s a powerful example of love, …