Whenever I tell people now that I didn’t have the best time at high school, they make a weird sort of face and say, ‘What was so bad about it?’ They dismiss my painful memories as melodrama; they don’t believe for a second that life was really as bad as I say. Someone even said…
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When I tell people I write a column about relationships, they tend to (rightly) assume that it’s about the romantic variety. The truth is that at my age (22), there are relationships that are at least as, if not more, important than the ones I spend every week thinking and subsequently writing about. As much…
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Whenever one of my guy friends asks me what the appeal is of Sex and the City, I tell them it’s the friendship. And the fashion. But mostly, the friendship. Big said it best in the series finale, ‘you’re the loves of her life, and a guy’s just lucky to get in fourth.’ I couldn’t…
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