meaning

When Conversations Quietly Die Before Relationships Do

How often have you been on the cusp of a long friendship that begins to disintegrate? The analogy is that bridge you cross on the way to work. You notice the rust and ignore it until a cable snaps. It seems more unstable than the day before. That is the moment when you either decide… 

The Cheeseburger, the Hot Dog, and the Missing Meaning

Shared meaning lives within overlapping snippets of understanding. That understanding ensures you get the actual fast food you ordered. Once, in a tourist town, I constructed a story around a waitress who served us. I imagined her to be distracted. Maybe things at home weren’t going well. Non-verbal info creates meaning. Those cues suggested that…