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  • - Explainer - Someone asked, given my frequently discussing the problems that My Lady and I deal with in our young marriage, how I knew she was the one. Here's (roughly) what I wrote back. It's funny, I did go throug…

  • - Follow Up -Reading note: I'm not making generalizations about how "all Chinese girls" are this and "all Korean girls" are that. I'm talking about the Chinese girls that I've dated, versus the Korean and other girls t…

  • "yes, i am in no huge rush to date anyone. i've been single for a while now. yay. i just want to find the right person. ugh, too many bad relationships makes me more cautious." - email excerpt from a Chinese female f…

  • "Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run." - William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (Hermione at III, ii) - On and On and On - 1. On Seeing Ex-Lovers o…

  • "It is partly about how the specter of love can give ordinary life a feeling of risk and enchantment . . ." - A.O. Scott (the only time I've ever thought that a review was more "artful" than the film- i don't mean that…

  • "People get married not because love or romance, they get married in order to have a witness to their lives. There are billions of people in this world, no one's life is particularly significant to others, except to your…

  • "Step One: List the things that cause stress and tension in your life." Stress- Coping with Everyday Problems, National Mental Health Association Publication - Not-So-Short List of Things that Bum Me Out -1. We have …

  • - When She Graduated From Stanford Law, She Was Asked to Be a Secretary -O'Connor is quickly becoming my favorite Justice. In a decision released today about eminent domain, she wrote a pretty sharp dissent (that I've o…

  • - Because I Can't Actually Go Two Posts Without Mentioning The Girl - She said something really sweet yesterday: You make everything better. I think that's a great way of looking at a relationship.

  • - Syndication -Why is it that every third woman I meet has this notion that her life is "sooo Sex in the City," but no woman I know can have anything close to casual sex? It's not like the men I know shoplift the booty …