Tag: communication
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Paula Deen, World War Z Zombies, and Real-Time Communications with Digital Pitchforks
What do Paula Deen and the zombies of the movie WORLD WAR Z have in common? The evolution of the “virus” of communication in real-time. Last weekend, I saw the new Brad Pitt movie WORLD WAR Z. Even before the zombie apocalypse became routine, I was a fan of zombie books and movies, particularly THE…
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Old Fangs: When You Can’t Talk to Your Father….
A friend recently shared this haunting short film with me, and I have not been able to forget it. I know that my own dad had deep feelings and that he loved us, but he could never share his gentler feelings, which was what I really needed from him. The closest he could come to…
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Squished Bread, Scrambled Eggs, and Mercury in Retrograde
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Passion to the Third Degree. Mercury’s in retrograde again. That comes too often, doesn’t it? Revisits and relooks and problems with communication, transportation, and computers. Some things have shifted around this past week. It reminds me of throwing groceries in the back of the car and getting home…
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Relationships without Walls
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Passion to the Third Degree. I want a relationship where the communication is deep and the walls are few. That’s always the problem in a relationship, isn’t it? Lack of communication? The other person’s communication? We pride ourselves on being able to communicate. On telling the other person…
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Man Games
Oh, good grief. Men play such petty little games. They want to go out and then they don’t want to go out and then they might want to go out but they’re not sure. What? Do you think I’m sitting here painting my toenails and reading Cosmo waiting for you to make up your mind…
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Short Leashes and Control Freaks
Wow. It’s not that I keep the people in my life on a short leash. I keep them on a GPS tracker and allow them the freedom to roam light years away. I just have to know where they are if they’re not home on time or if my plans get trashed. I’ve learned through…
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The Most Damaging Missile to a Relationship
The deejay was keeping us tuned in via a list of the top ten most damaging things a couple (or really, any two people) can do to each other in a relationship. It was aimed more at love relationships, but most of the list fit with friendships and business partnerships as well. They did the…
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Stuck in the Past
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Love in the Third Degree. It’s funny how people you haven’t spoken with in months or even years can communicate out of the blue and assume they know what’s going on in your life. Sometimes the messages are ambiguous at best and insane at worst. They just don’t…
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Celebration Dinner
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Curves. The man is back in my dreams. Has been all week. Every now and then, like last Tuesday morning, I wake feeling that he’s been sleeping next to me all night—not in a sexual way but in a sense of closeness—and has left the bed…
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Things I Can’t Say
My daughter posted on her private blog a list of 10 things she wishes she could say but she can’t, for varying reasons, and it made me think about what I wish I could say but I can’t, also for varying reasons. And why I can’t say them. Many of the important things I need…
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“I Can Tell You Anything” Has Consequences
Several months ago, I lost a good friend. It was very sudden, very unexpected. Like a death. I don’t talk about it. I don’t know what to say about it. I still don’t know exactly what happened. As for why, I’m trying to look at it in that big-picture sort of way that says we…
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Can Things Be Right Again?
Can things ever be right again when someone is hurting and needing to crawl into their own little cave for a while? Must be something in the stars. I’m watching several situations with startling similarities. They all involve people who are hurt retreating into their own worlds and people who are reaching out, sometimes wanted…
