Tag Archive for: Love and Other Things

Being “psychic” is great for dating


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There aren’t many times in your life that you get a chance to recreate yourself in a new place and be whoever you want to be. When I transferred to USC in my sophomore year, I decided to recreate myself as a psychic. Yes friends, a psychic. Why? Well, I had watched a few documentaries […]

Real and complex love needs time in order to develop


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Nothing good ever happens after 2 a.m. For this particular story, confessions of love after 2 a.m. don’t always go reciprocated. For the purpose of anonymity, her name in this column will be Sarah. Sarah, who I had recently met, was pretty cool on first impression. We had hung out with each other a couple […]

People are more attractive when they are independent


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People think my Australian accent is cool, but I think people with accents from Texas are way hotter. There is one Southern Belle who will forever plague this love columnist’s soul. I call her the green-eyed monster. I met this G.E.M. (green-eyed monster) at a church in Houston. last year. As she hurried in late […]

A mutual understanding is necessary in attraction


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My first college party was a complete mess. Coming to college from Australia, I had no idea what a “frat” was. At 18, most of us had under-aged partied ourselves out by 15. So, here I was at my first college party, having an absolutely awesome time. During the first month of school, everything was […]

Relationships require honesty


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I went to an all-boys school in Sydney, Australia, my whole life before entering college. At 15, the only girls that I really talked to were my mother and my sister. My mom is my mom, and well, my sister was 7 at the time. I did not have a lot of experience with girls. […]