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The best of OC Transpo for those new to Ottawa

September 07, 2010

OC Transpo is the world’s largest bus system, but where to take it?

If I was short on wisdom, I hope my luck rubbed off

June 24, 2010

Goodbye columns are a bit self-indulgent, but I figured you might as well hear it from me: This is it for us — this is my last Relating column.

The underrated, oft neglected power of friendship

June 10, 2010

Friendship gets less glory and attention than other relationships. It’s too easy, too steady and self-supporting. Maybe it works too well to be taken seriously.

Matchmaking done Call of Duty style

May 13, 2010

I wrote a few weeks ago about the endless and often overblown warnings we get that our handheld gadgets and online social networking are killing human interaction as we once knew it.

Matchmaking done Call of Duty style

May 13, 2010

I wrote a few weeks ago about the endless and often overblown warnings we get that our handheld gadgets and online social networking are killing human interaction as we once knew it.

Finding a separation of libido and state

April 29, 2010

It can be awkward when your government sits you down for a sex talk.

Surprise! It's 'Couple Appreciation Month'

April 15, 2010

You learn so much on this beat. I’m informed, for example, that April is “Couple Appreciation Month.” No doubt you already have big plans.

Road trips test-drive your relationship

April 01, 2010

I don’t write much here about my own relationship. It’s a happy one, after all, and that’s a boring read.

There is no 'we' in iPod

March 18, 2010

After more than a half-century of worries, warnings and studies about what our media habits are doing to us and our relationships, FCC chairman Newton Minow’s famous 1961 condemnation of the “vast wasteland” of network TV seems somehow quaint.

Stupid is as stupid does when it comes to infidelity

March 04, 2010

This just in: Cheating is dumb.

The changing rituals of saying goodbye

February 18, 2010

Modern life is geographically scattered, computer mediated and subject to change without notice.

When it comes to the benefits of marriage, the jury is out

January 21, 2010

Is marriage good for you? The research continues.

Avoiding the pitfalls of his and hers resolutions

January 07, 2010

So, it’s been almost a week. How are those resolutions holding up?

Have yourself a merry little Whatever

December 24, 2009

I have no way of knowing under what circumstances you’re reading this, whether you’re on your way home for the holidays or headed to work, trying to finish your shopping or just catching your breath.

So, it turns out we all watch porn after all

December 10, 2009

I feel I owe an apology to Simon Louis Lajeunesse on behalf of my (and his) gender.

Watching a stranger emerge from your lover

November 26, 2009

I dropped in on an old friend who, since I’d last seen him, has not only gone into business for himself, but is working with his wife. Couples who can manage to do this sort of thing fascinate me.