Some years ago, I was on the phone with a good friend of mine who was dating this girl he was very much in love with. Through this, and a succession of other conversations before this one we had about this girl and the problems they had in their relationship, it became glaringly apparent that this girl had a ton of baggage. She had been in an abusive marriage before and been through some other childhood trauma, and this was indirectly reflected in the problems the two of them were having. Read more…
I remember a few years ago I was talking to a friend of mine on the phone, (may his soul rest in peace), and he was proclaiming to me how he was going to get his sh*t together and then find him a “dime piece,” which to him (and many people who use those words) meant a very attractive woman who had her sh*t together, i.e. had a relatively high paying white collar job, intelligent, had her own place, and classy. Read more…
I remember several years ago, I was having a three-way phone conversation with a friend of mine and a woman he had started dating. Both of us had known her for a very long time and in this conversation, she was catching me up on the going-ons of her life over the past several years I hadn’t seen nor heard from or about her. Read more…
Several years back, I was talking with a roommate about a woman we both knew who was a fine art/figure model that I had considered hiring to shoot with me in a photo shoot for a showcase I did some time before called, “The Ike Show.” Although she was very attractive, I wound up hiring someone else because I thought the other model was a better fit for my project. Read more…
A couple of days ago, I was sitting in my office at about 8:30pm in the evening and it was at that moment that I should’ve been headed to the gym. Read more…
The other day, I posted on social media the last blog I had written called, “Why it is REALLY Never Personal When Others Hate on You,” and lo and behold, under it, someone wrote a sarcastic comment that said, “Duh. NY 101. Who cares?” which I took personal…haha Read more…
Have you ever been annoyed or confused by the phrase, “Don’t take things personally?” Read more…
I personally believe that anger has gotten a bad rap because it is a very misunderstood emotion. Read more…
It’s funny when two people start dating, everyone is trying to be on their best behaviour because they don’t want to scare their new romantic interest away with their quirks, idiosyncrasies, neurotic behaviour, bad habits, past baggage or anything else they think may sour a “promising” beginning. Read more…
So, in the past few weeks I noticed something that I tend to do.
I noticed that when I get a compliment, my response is to put myself down. Read more…
