Posts Tagged ‘dating’
On growing up, and on remembering tragedy
I’m yanking this from the wonderful Molly Langmuir’s blog. It’s so, so true (though my particular fantasy was about being attended on the sidelines of a soccer game after being struck in the face by a soccer ball. Which I was once, without the swooning boys, and therein lies its origins, I think):
When I [...]
The personal-life liabilities of pursuing a Pulitzer Prize
About a month ago, I realized that my apprehension about talking to men here was impeding my work. The feeling, I decided, was an overcorrection. I’d dropped myself in Kigali with the same universal trust of strangers I apply everywhere I am. This leads me into dicey situations sometimes, and my mother [...]
Relationships with places are still…relationships
Early in my adult life, I became a serial dater of places. I had a long, happy love affair with Boston, but we plateaued. It was my first such relationship, and I was vulnerable to that pesky, destructive force, the rosy vision of that-which-you-do-not-have. This was enhanced by the romantic allure of [...]
Murphy’s law meets Occum’s razor
For whatever reason, the cultural differences in dating practices have been coming up in many of my conversations recently. Today, it was Kenya.
“So what’s dating like in Kenya?” I asked a new friend.
“What’s it like?” she said, taking an incredulous puff of her cigarette.
“The men cheat. The women cry.”
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