A few weeks ago I wrote about having joined the Postcrossing service that allows you to send and receive postcards from strangers. Well, to my utmost thrill (yes, it doesn’t take much to please me) today I received my first postcard from a stranger. It’s from a girl called Pooca in Tampere, Finland — and [...]
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My first postcard from a stranger
Posted in personal, relationships, tagged cool, Finland, postcards, strangers on March 24, 2009 | 5 Comments »
What it’s like to fall in love with an assassin
Posted in relationships on March 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is by far the best story I have read in a while. War photo-journalist Jason P Howe travels to Colombia on a mission to document images that would narrate the country’s political history bound by terrorism. He falls in love with a Colombian woman who turns out to be a cold-blooded killer.[Excerpt]: “The woman [...]
Unhappy in your relationship?
Posted in life, relationships on January 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Over the last few weeks or so, I have been privy to many, MANY conversations about relationship problems (when girls get together, 90% of the time, this is, unfortunately, what we talk about). The crux of it all has been that people are in relationships that make them unhappy. Boyfriends are dicks and make their [...]
Dating: The Three-Month Twitch
Posted in relationships on December 2, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I have been in the “dating” sphere for the last 10-years, and I have not been able to keep a man in my life for more than 3-months at a stretch — a consistent end post the damned if you do, damned if you don’t theory. Various reasons for this, all bullshit, but reasons nonetheless [...]