Recently readHow to reject and how to accept rejection. Gwen’s so wise, it’s crazy. Especially this part on how not to handle a rejection:
Do NOT say:
“What? Why not??” or
“But… but… I thought…” or
“I think you’re making a big mistake, because…” or
“Well, then you’ve been leading me on all this time,” or
anything with bad words in it. […]
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Guys who are cheesy towards their partner in public REALLY need to stop it. Exhibit A, Jenna Elfman’s husband. Okay, they’re Scientologists, so he’s obviously starting out a bit soft in the head, but there is no way I can fully describe just how unattractive this kind of behaviour is. You may as well be […]
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I agree 100 per cent with everything Gwen says here.
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One of my favourite blogs right now is The Happiness Project. It’s the kind of blog I really need to sit down and digest - not just skim and then mark as read in my RSS reader - and I’m treating myself to a catch-up session with what Gretchen’s been writing. As always, a rewarding […]
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This woman makes me break out in hives. Reading this article - where, for once, she doesn’t mention that Cherie Blair is her sister - I cringed about a thousand times. Lauren, it’s pretty easy:
1) Hire someone to do the cleaning and ironing. Even in London, you can easily find someone to do this for […]
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From today’s Observer:
Love…needs closeness and intimacy and familiarity to flourish. Desire does not. Desire needs distance, insecurity, novelty and surprise. Desire needs tension, breaches and repairs. Love is not comfortable with fights, but desire needs fights. Fights generate energy, erotic energy - and this is not just desire for sex, but a general exuberance and […]
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I have just finished reading Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, a book I nearly did not buy from my local Children’s Society charity shop, but whose £1 price tag compelled me to try it anyway. I’m so glad I did.
From the back cover:
The ‘marriage’ was that between the two writers Vita […]
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I’m embarrassed to admit this, but I’m a major fan of George Michael’s second solo album. For those songs alone, I would go see him sing live. I also had a huge crush on him when he was in Wham! (You may think that’s funny, but it’s nothing compared to my soft spot - aged […]
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On the flight from London to San Francisco, I read Alice Sebold’s Lucky from start to finish. It is a memoir of her brutal rape and beating at age 18, a virgin and Syracuse freshman, and how she eventually got her attacker convicted and put in prison. Aged 18.
In Lovely Bones, Sebold’s first novel, […]
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I’ve been thinking about how childhood circumstances affect our spending later in life. Antoine and I were just debating whether a mooted trip was expensive or not. For our internal UK flights and a night in the four-star Malmaison, I thought the price was pretty good, especially as it will allow me to spend time […]
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Last night, I was out with some male friends, and as Antoine wasn’t with us, I thought it would be a good time for me to get nosy and ask them about their experiences of romantic relationships, what drives them crazy about women, etc. Call it research.
All I can say is, after the conversations […]
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Seriously, what has happened to India Knight? After telling us how women are so daft that we need legislation to protect us from making stupid choices like the ones she (failed to mention that she) has made herself (heavy smoking, binge drinking, getting pregnant in middle age), she writes in today’s Sunday Times that there […]
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Bearing in mind what I wrote yesterday, here’s India Knight (someone I know personally, and for whom I have in the past had lots of nice things to say) in today’s Sunday Times, writing about how women supposedly now die earlier than men because we all binge drink, smoke like chimneys, and work our tails […]
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I go to the cinema about once every two years. But I will be first in line for Capote, that’s for sure. It has going for it: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener (as Harper Lee!), being about one of my favourite writers, dealing with his writing of one of my favourite books, and - by […]
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