The Tough Stuff

Finances. Medical decisions. Funeral plans. None of these are particularly comfortable or easy topics to discuss, but they are among some of the most important. No one wants to think about the financial realities of life, even when we know we have to. Nor do we want to think about our deaths or the deaths [...]

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 [...]

Can You Handle the Truth?

A few years ago, when I was in graduate school, I took a course in Communication Theory and, as part of an assignment, developed my own communication theory that I very cleverly called “The Online Anonymity-Selectivity Effect.” I won’t bore you with the details, but the basic idea, in part, is that the Internet gives [...]