The date was July 6, 2008. I sleepily crawled out of bed at 9 a.m. to watch the men's final of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships. If you are a tennis fan, then you probably remember this match. It is widely considered the greatest tennis match of all time. What made it great? Well, it pitted…
I was talking with a coworker the other day and somehow the topic of conversation came to a man he knew who had been married (and divorced) quite a few times. My coworker's comment on the subject was excellent: "at some point, after you've been divorced that many times, you have to start looking in the…
A man meets a woman. He talks to her for a bit, they exchange a few laughs, and go their separate ways. When the man's friend asks him if he will pursue a relationship with this woman, he replies, "no, she is too fat for me." Is this man a bad person? A woman meets…
Frames of reference are all around us. They exist in ways we often aren't entirely aware of, or at least don't care to notice. One of my favorite examples involves former U.S. President Gerald Ford. Before he was president, Ford was an Eagle Scout, played on the University of Michigan football team, and served in…
Let me just start out by stating that I am a self-proclaimed introvert (ISTP if you are the Myers-Briggs type), so I am by no means bashing introverts in this article. Now that I've gotten that out of the way, I want to say that seeing the multitude of "X Things Only Introverts Understand" headlines…