They've slept with the wrong person. They've taken the wrong substance.

Women who have embraced these findings report that relations with the men in their lives become much smoother and, paradoxically, more intimate.

Christmas morning, where we open up our gifts, where we have special prayers, and where we get to the old upright piano and we would sing carols. It was a very intimate moment.

Every once in a while, of course, unsolicited messages and ads that happen to be mysteriously related to our most intimate habits intrude.

But seriously, actually, what you can see there, in a way that would be very hard to detect otherwise, is Reagan reinventing the political language of the country and shifting to a much more intimate, much more folksy, much more telegenic contracting all those verbs.

The founding mother of the blog revolution, Movable Type's Mena Trott, talks about the early days of blogging, when she realized that giving regular people the power to share our lives online is the key to building a friendlier, more connected world.

And what should have been the most relaxing, the most intimate, the most tender moment of the day, when a dad sits down to read to his son, became instead this kind of gladiatorial battle of wills, a clash between my speed and his slowness.