Be Better

By now, you’ve probably heard about the shooting in Arizona, in which a gunman open-fired on a crowd of people who had gathered to talk with Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ). Six people were killed, including a nine-year-old girl who had just been elected to her school’s student council. Representative Giffords is still in critical condition [...]

Adventures in Online Dating, Vol. 6

I had high hopes when I started this crazy journey into the world of online dating, but I was still pretty skeptical. I wasn’t convinced it worked. And now, it seems, that skepticism has come back to haunt me. Like most things in life, what you get out of a situation or experience correlates directly [...]

The Ghosts of Mers Past

Two weeks ago, I started my vacation. I didn’t go anywhere exotic or outlandish – I was barely far from home. I went to the beach in Rhode Island, at the very bottom of my tiny home state, to a small town that I discovered I still knew quite well. Little Compton, RI isn’t a [...]