Baseball Coaches, Good & Bad and Manny Snubs DC
It was quite unplanned, the story about NYU holding graduation at Yankee Stadium and Mark Patinkin’s column in the Providence Journal about baseball — “Saving Baseball One Kid at a Time.”
Yankee Stadium for NYU Grads: A Decisionmaking Flunk
This post is about a decision gone awry. Imagine being a Red Sox fan all of your life and finding out that your graduation is going to take place at Yankee Stadium. Or imagine being a Yankee fan and finding yourself receiving your degree at Fenway Park. The full link is below.
Winds of Change and the War of Words
As Hillary and Obama trade charges in their war of words, I just found this in my junk mail sent to me by one of my sons. And indeed it points out the winds of change. Decision days approach and I find myself wondering if the pendulum will keep swinging right up until they reach [...]
Sex & Abstinence: Where Do They Stand? You Tube
Sex talk. Whether we wrap it in an abstinence package or educate through a Planned Parenthood packet – we are talking about sex. In the abstinence world, the talk of sex translates into “no sex before marriage,” and it comes without the sound advice of safe sex based on good science.
I was reminded of my [...]
“How Many Times Have I Told You?” Does Not Work
At Yale we taught coping skills to teenage mothers as a way to deflect anger, use words kindly, make decisions, and see problems from another person’s perspective. Words are important to me, and how one talks to another in public is always on my mind.
When I was at Hunter College, in New York City, a [...]
Sex in the Senate, on Capitol Hill, and in the White House
What if John McCain had sex with a lobbyist? Will it matter to the country? I’m not happy about extramarital sex, none of us should be. But we seem to be obsessed with sex in the Senate, on Capitol Hill, and in the White House.
Hillary brought the subject of Bill and Monica in an ever [...]
Are We Having Enough Sex? Or Marriage?
I haven’t lost interest in the campaign — I am just wondering if we as a nation are losing interest in sex. The Durex Survey tells us that we rank pretty low on the totem pole for sexual satisfaction. Why is that? Are young people too stressed out and working too many hours to appreciate [...]
Words, Friendship, and the Laughter Club VIDEO
At a dinner party, silverware jangled each time a husband spoke and his wife snapped: “How many times do I have to tell you, that’s not how it happened?”
He shrugged: “I don’t know what her agenda is this time. I don’t hear her anymore. I live an old Mexican philosophy, ‘Don’t take unkind words personally. [...]
Hidden Agendas at Home & Office with Bushism video
“Do you know why men try to pick up women at bars?” he asked, “Because our women have shut us down. Then if we happen to meet another woman, even for fun, we’re the bad guys!”
He added: “They force us out and want us to be celibate while we try to read their minds. I [...]
Love Story Quiz, but First Your Perceived vs. Real Self
Some of you wrote and asked for more details about Robert Sternberg’s Love Story theory. It seems simple, but people are beginning to tell me that it is hard work. And I agree. In all the years that I have had this quiz, I just realized that I have never completed it. Now I understand why. [...]
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