The Sex Experiment

This story once again really highlights how well you write Mallory. You take what’s interesting about the experience and really make it pop in a way that sweeps the reader up into the same emotional journey. I must confess, I want to plagiarize you like you wouldn’t believe 🙂

Our lives today are very much high speed and remote. I am old fashioned and believe that your thoughts on conversations are quite accurate. It is a little harder to hide in conversations. Conversations do take time. And time, enough of it, will be the true test of sustenance and consistency. Investment in time is necessary to learn about him…[Read more]

I also really relate to your points around the deterioration of the real art behind conversation… Funny you should mention Jane Austen in the same story, whose dialogue is so concise and loaded with meaning and innuendo and tradition… And so different from the way we approach ‘trendy’ dialogue today. I am not just old fashioned, I’m actually…[Read more]

Your sensitivity is seductive as always, E. Here’s to other bicycle paths and the laps of men who know how to talk.

Well there clearly is consensus in these parts around the notion of how technology can act as a barrier to real intimacy. Connecting directly with others is as fundamental to our well being and happiness as anything else we could do (I actually think it is more important than anything else). The real problem lies in the fact that modern…[Read more]