Words from Warren

Month: January 2018

  • Aging Together

    How do you explain aging to a 30-year-old? It is, after all, something you have to experience. On the other hand, you could learn from an “old” or, as I like to call it, an “aging” person.  Most of us –see what I did there?– are more than willing to share what we have discovered. […]

  • …goblin, hobgoblin, gnome, halfling, demon, monster, bugaboo, ogre…

    TROLL: a mythical, cave-dwelling being depicted in folklore as either a giant or a dwarf, typically having a very ugly appearance. INTERNET TROLL: a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting quarrels or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages…with the intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal, on-topic discussion, often for the troll’s amusement. CONCERN […]

  • #MeToo, #TimesUp, Aziz Ansari, and Gray Areas

    Originally posted on Michelle L. Torigian:
    I read an account in which a woman with the pseudonym “Grace” details a night of intimacy with actor Aziz Ansari on the website Babe.  The account is one in which the woman agrees to go to his home after a short date.  As the night progresses she indicates her…

  • Another blog? Why not?

    When I first set up Words From Warren I had the far-too egotistical idea that I could write about marriage. Sure, I had experience, today I have been married 38 years and 7 months, but did I learn anything valuable you haven’t already read somewhere else? Then comes along the 2016 Presidential election. If I […]