JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Tyler Cowen listed a few examples from a NYT article Betting on the Betrothed(article quote below). Shortly after Jennifer Lopez married Marc Anthony on June 5, British bookmakers began offering 3-to-1 odds that the couple will divorce by the end of the year. On the other hand, the odds are 1 to 2 that Demi […]

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Just a Gwai Lo has been writing about kissing, and linking to other writings about kisses. This piece by Joan Smith elaborates on the history and significance of kisses – a little like my own post What a kiss can say. I didn’t know that National Kissing Day is July 6 – in Britain – […]

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Shelley Powers also likes pretty dresses and Romance…and she wondered what has happened to those moments of whirling and whispering… Is romance dead? …I’m talking about moonlight and roses, dancing until dawn, looking dreamily into each others eyes. Romance. Capital ‘R’. […] Did we lose Romance when we burned our bras and marched for equal […]

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Joanne Jacobs quoted an NYT article describing teenage relationships As these teenagers see it, marriage and monogamy will seamlessly replace their youthful hookup careers sometime in their mid- to late 20’s — or, as one high-school boy from Rhode Island told me online, when ”we turn 30 and no one hot wants us anymore.” Brian, […]

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Last Tuesday night, as I gathered the garbage from the upstairs rooms to put into the cans for collection, the girls followed me, watching my work. Abigail and Michaela were surprised when I took the trash from the can on Ted’s side of the bed and exclaimed: “You share the garbage?!” Yes, we share the […]

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