My friend Marissa sent me this earlier this week in an email, and as I read the poem, it reminded me of how ephemeral everything really is, which sounds maudlin, but I don’t really mean it that way. Like the way summer slowly turned into fall this weekend, but I hope summer comes back, and [...]

Dear Adri, This may be a strange question, but I’m not quite sure where and how to ask. I feel that if I mention this to my guy friends, they’ll think I’m weird, and I don’t have any girl friends. I’m almost thirty and my girlfriend is almost thirty-four, which she maintains is a huge [...]

Adri, A hypothetical: Let’s say you are an attractive female in your 20s (not so hypothetical for you). You’ve had a handful of serious relationships in your past, the most recent one which ended about half a year ago. None of them lasted more than a year, but they all got fairly intense. You always [...]

I am inexplicably infatuated with a good friend of mine. I’m pretty sure she knows but has yet to make an issue of it nor run off. I have no intentions of pursuing a relationship or making a play to woo her. I would like to maintain the friendship without straining things, how do I [...]

Got my orders on Friday. Gave some blood, took a urine sample, let them put monitors on my heart and x-ray my chest for a while that afternoon. Filled out paperwork. Told them I was Catholic in case a priest needed to be called. Spent yesterday driving around with parents and hanging out with old [...]

I’ve posted this elsewhere on my journal, but it’s still a legitimate question! I’m sorry for the length, but the background is necessary (I think). So I have this friend (no, really). Before she turned 21 she never drank and was the typical “good girl” in every way. Since she turned 21 (last summer), she’s [...]