Today’s "Modern Love" column is by my friend, Spike Gillespie (Hi Spike!).  She has a couple of books, a website, and is well known in Austin.   I have known her electronically for several years as we exchanged email… Continue reading

     Another of our continuing responses to the NYT’s "Modern Love" column.      This week, Kevin Cahillane, discusses his alcoholism and wonders whether, without it, he would ever have forged a relationship with the woman who became his… Continue reading

    I found this in China Daily: Medical researchers in the United States have now confirmed what everyone has always suspected: lovers are crazy. By doing brain scans of college students in love, they found the brains of students… Continue reading

     I guess I’m going to make this a weekly thing, too: blogging NYT’s "Modern Love" column.       Today’s piece, by Sandra Burton, is great.  It is about how technology mediates relationships.   As I started to read it,… Continue reading

     Today, the "Modern Love" column in the NYT seems to be about sex blogging.  A woman discovers that her twenty-something nanny has started a blog that talks about sex, bringing back for the older woman uncomfortable memories of,… Continue reading

     Today’s NYT "Modern Love" column speaks to the tension between playfulness and seriousness in a maybe-this-could-be-for-the-long-term relationship.  Stephen R. Johnson tells us how he and the woman he is dating lapse into childish language whenever they need to… Continue reading

    These columns often seem to be about divorce: maybe that’s where we are these days.  In any event, today’s piece, by Rene Watabe, is about a Moonie marriage, or an attempt to make a Moonie marriage work.  She… Continue reading