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I wrote in an earlier post, Love At The Dinner Table, about how food underlies many of our formative emotional experiences, ranging from family interactions to occasions with lovers. This was mostly based on my intuition and my life experiences as a child of foodies. Now, research from Indiana University backs up this claim, as [...]
While I was visiting my family in Los Angeles over the winter holidays, we enjoyed a number of fabulous meals together. These meals ranged from home-cooked simplicity to gourmet restaurant affairs that lasted four hours. During an instance of the latter–a deliciously decadent meal at Providence–I began reflecting on how the meals we eat with [...]
Someone on my Twitter feed linked to this heartwarming tumblr post titled “For the children I will never have: The facts of life”. The author explains in charmingly simple language that boys and girls can grow up to be men or women or both or neither; that some men and women like kissing each other, [...]
There are many opportunities out there for individuals to explore when looking for a partner. Some more common than others; we’ve heard of blind dates, speed dating, and the oh-so-poplar online dating – but what about video game dating? Thanks to my older sister, I recently read a rather intriguing article from The Wall Street [...]
If you haven’t read or seen The Princess Bride, stop reading this now and do one or the other before you read this any further (spoiler alert). The book and the film are both excellent and I highly recommend them.
A fun game to play with others while waiting for a bus, riding a train or sitting around after dinner is the superpower game – as in, if you could have one superpower, what would it be? Often, people say they’d like to fly, to have x-ray vision or to be invisible. These are all [...]
Thanks go to the wonderful Amanda who knows how much I enjoy love stories and who kindly sent me a link to this animated StoryCorps video. It’s about a 27 year marriage, and a lot of love, between two Danny and Annie who lived together in Brooklyn. Warning: soppy tearjerker ahead. I cried and cried [...]
Recently, I’ve been giving some thought to the concept of “limerence.” Even if most of us have never heard the term, we know the feeling: that all-encompassing, giddy, preoccupation of falling in love. I’ve discovered that my experience of moving to Australia parallels this stage of many new relationships. For some people, this stage lasts [...]
This morning, I read a lovely piece on Gizmodo titled “An Ode to Landlines and Desk Phones” which turned out to be different than I thought. Sentimental as I am, I expected it to tie in a love – and I mean a real love and a yearning sense of nostalgia – for landlines and phones [...]
Maybe I live in a cave, but until I visited Budapest this summer, I had never before seen what I liked to call “flip benches” (see above). Flip benches are kind of like reversible shirts in that you can use them forward or backwards, but they’re benches. You can sit on a flip bench facing [...]
Loading ...Longtime MSP readers will know that we are big fans of Clarisse Thorn‘s writing: she intelligently tackles important sex topics such as BDSM, sexual submission, open relationships, and sex-positivity. So we of course were super-excited when her book, Confessions of a Pickup Artist Chaser, came out (available on Amazon and Smashwords and in paperback). Clarisse [...]
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