Why Dating is like Solitaire

A POST I PUBLISHED at the end of December 2014 has (surprisingly) been my most viewed in 2015 – Why Dating is like Minesweeper. Following in the same vein I decided to compare the bane of most single people’s lives to another ageless game that dominated my teenage years – Solitaire. The game came pre-installed with […]

Wrist Bubbles, Glitter Cubes and Human Lie Detectors

INTERESTING TO SEE NYT Best-selling author Neil Strauss doing the media rounds lately promoting his latest book – ‘The Truth‘. Strauss is probably best known for infiltrating a secret underground society of ‘pick-up’ or seduction experts and documenting his journey from shy, introverted, unlucky in love geek to the world’s best PUA (pick-up artist) in […]

The Beauty of a Thick Skin

THERE WAS a time in my life when I was extremely sensitive. Around the time a pigtailed Britney Spears burst onto the scene with her ‘Pedo-Pop’ video, I began to pay closer attention to the opposite sex. I lacked self-confidence in my mid teens like many others in that age group, but at teeny bopper discos […]