If you want to fall in love with someone (or just like them more) –
Do things for them.
The kind of things that excite you, stretch you, and scare you just a bit. The kind of things that require at least a little of your attention everyday. The kind of things that you really do because they ma […]

Yesterday morning, I was planning to hang out with a friend. I was in San Francisco, close to where she lives, and we were going to grab a cup of tea or light bite together before I began my drive back home to LA.
Our last text exchange had left the details of our get-together up in the air – […]

 
This morning, my girlfriend and I were scheduled to go for a sunrise hike. Yesterday, she cancelled on me.
I felt ‘irritated’ – the nice way of saying angry.
Now my anger was not ‘rational’.
She’s extremely busy at work, her grandmother is very sick and she’s starting her o […]

A couple of weeks ago, I was on a camping trip with a bunch of people.
As I was traipsing along on one of our hiking excursions, an amazing idea hit me! I knew exactly what I wanted to do, who I wanted to do it with and exactly how I wanted to do it. Only problem was I didn’t know how to get start […]

Yesterday, I woke up at 4 am in a minor panic – wondering if my man was ok.
He was on his way from London to Luanda, Angola, via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
This may sound like a crazy itinerary, but its par for the course around here.
I knew he had made it to Ethiopia but I hadn’t received the u […]

Last night I was at dinner with a friend who is planning to move back to her hometown. She was telling me how she doesn’t really want to live there, but she’s already told her family, so she kinda has to go now as not to disappoint. She must have seen a look on my face, because she stopped mid-s […]