Surviving Long Distance Relationships

Romance is hard in the best of circumstances, but when you had hundreds of miles to separate couple, it can be tougher. Romance and relationships thrive on communication. Communication is even more crucial when those miles keep you apart. We crave human touch and when circumstances dictate that we have to be apart, it’s more important than ever to keep the contact up. Sending emails, communicating through text messaging, talking in instant messages are all gifts of the technological age, but as close as they can bring people together – they are still a bit impersonal. Consider how wonderful it … Continue reading

Andy Rooney: Victim of Fraudulent Emails

Andy Rooney has always been one to clearly state his opinion and he is doing that once again – saying that he never made the racist commentary attributed to him that is circulating around the Internet in an email. Yet he is cautious, not wanting to give the originators of these emails any more attention than they have already received. Rooney told AP that he hated to think that people believed he wrote the things said in those emails. The email is filled anti-minority statements such as “I have the right not to be tolerant of others because they are … Continue reading

Urban Legends – How Do You Know What’s True?

Did you hear the one about the driver that was not going to avoid a large paper bag in the middle of the street? At the last moment, he swerved around it and when he looked in his rear view mirror, there was a baby crawling out of it! Okay, that is not true, but we still love to spread tales like that, known as urban legends. What exactly is an urban legend? It is a tale that may have at one time been based on fact, but as it was told and told and told again, the details were … Continue reading