July 13, 2010
Hi to all,
I hope you are having a great summer.
I am thinking back to the wonderful memories I have of my trip to Australia, last summer, to be on 60 Minutes. You can watch the segment at Lostlovers.com under the Media section.
Today there is a very short interview with me, about rekindled romances, posted at cosmopolitan.com.za. The editor requested that I write 150 words to sum up the entire topic!
http://www.cosmopolitan.co.za/Relationships/LovenRelationships/the-love-gurus-pg1 This is the South Africa edition of the online magazine.
The topic of lost and found love is popular across the globe, holding a universal appeal.
Enjoy these summer days. Stay cool. More from me another time.
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June 30, 2010
Greetings!
Lost love is always a hot topic in the media, and it’s especially hot in June! I was just interviewed for a news article on reunions, and this may be a good opportunity for you, too. The journalist would like to include an interview with a couple who recently reunited on Facebook: she seeks happy endings only, and no affairs/broken marriages in the path of the reunion.
And a journalism graduate student in New York has set out a difficult task for herself this summer. She is writing her thesis on couples who were married and divorced, then years later remarried each other again. She would like to interview a divorced/remarried couple in the Northeast.
If either of these interviews is right for you, or if you know someone who might be interested, please contact me for more details. As always with the media, deadlines are pressing.
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May 25, 2010
Hi Friends,
It’s been a difficult year for California and for the state university. Because of draconian budget reductions, we all taught extra classes, had no staff support, no paper or ink to copy our exams (so we paid for our own). Students were angry about tuition increases and faculty felt demoralized by “furloughs”/salary cuts. So I am glad the semester is behind me, and for the first time, I will not be teaching summer school. A real vacation!
But it’s not a vacation from Lostlovers.com. I hope to catch up on my lost love research and complete what I need to do to submit it to a journal. And I will have extra time to devote to the member forums and to phone consultations.
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February 11, 2010
I was interviewed recently by a popular Polish website, Wirtualna Polska, and the article was posted today. The interview was conducted in English by email, then translated into Polish. If you would like to read the article, enter this url into Google Translator and it will show you the English.
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January 29, 2010
Happy New Year!
I was interviewed today by Chip Rowe, host of The Playboy Advisor Show, on Sirius/XM radio. This was the second time I have been on Playboy radio, and my survey findings have appeared twice in the magazine, too. I have been pleased with how my romance research has been presented by Playboy, and I have received good feedback from readers and listeners: men who are usually uncomfortable talking about their romantic feelings wrote to tell me about their lost loves and how much these women meant to them.
Over the last generation, it became widely accepted that women are as interested in sex as men are. But there still seems to be a bias that men don’t — or shouldn’t — have the same romantic feelings as women. People differ in how important romance or sex is to them, but it’s not based on their gender. Both men and women have the same needs; gender roles only keep us from expressing our full natures.
Fortunately, expectations of what it means to be masculine or feminine are less restrictive now than years ago. But there are still stereotypes: you might think that Playboy would focus on sex, but that topic never came up in my interviews. We spoke about attachments, about love and loss — universal concerns for us all.
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December 16, 2009
Not much new here in Lost Love Land.
Around the holidays, many people with lost love concerns are more anxious, confused, or sad than usual, and a community of like-minded men and women can be helpful; new members have been joining the Member Forums, so there are numerous high spirited, enthusiastic (okay, obsessive) threads and posts for you to read.
Most activity is centered in the private forums and, try as I might to convince members to post in the open, they usually don’t. There is great benefit from reading how others handled their lost love issues, so even if you don’t intend to post messages yourself, why not join the website and read the conversations?
In addition, I am available for phone consultations, as always, and I will have added time to talk with clients after my classes end, on Friday.
Even finding the right gift can be challenging. Lost & Found Lovers, the audiobook CD of The Lost Love Chronicles, and the music of Gary Charles on Journal Entry all make thoughtful gifts for a lost love.
The holiday period is joyous, too, of course. To those of you who are currently celebrating Chanukah, as I am, and to those who will be celebrating Christmas and New Year’s very soon, I wish you all a happy, healthy, safe and prosperous 2010!
Dr Nancy Kalish
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October 22, 2009
A very short segment about lost love reunions appeared today on CNN and on CNN.com. I was filmed at California State University, Sacramento, but CNN was unable to provide a local camera crew. I was asked to do the interview using Skype.
Our Public Affairs Office set up lights (their own) and a computer, no external camera. As a result, my appearance came out sort of blurry with some image distortion (and much of what I had to say didn’t air). But the producer tells me that she thinks it looks fine and it was the most popular posted video at CNN.com.
The story’s message is good, and if you want to see what I really look like, there are more flattering pictures of me online.
A short comment on Kurt’s story: it’s tragic that his lost love died so young. But I don’t think he truly understands how a reunion with her might have affected his good marriage.
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September 21, 2009
Tomorrow morning, Tuesday, I will appear in a lost love segment on Good Morning America, 8 am PT/ET.
Unfortunately, I did not get the opportunity to go to NYC; the segment was taped at California State University, Sacramento. Just as well; I have classes to teach. So, by the magic of television, I can be in two places at once.
For those of you who are already at work at 8 am (and for those of you who, like me, usually sleep through the morning shows), the segment will be posted at the Good Morning America website and also here at Lostlovers.com.
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September 6, 2009
I interviewed for a story on lost loves for the Mercury News in San Jose, CA, and it ran on August 28, 2009.
Someone emailed me tonight and told me a story about my work was featured today in The Reading Eagle in Reading, PA. I was not contacted by a reporter from this newspaper, so my guess is that they reran a lost love article from another newspaper, possibly The Mercury News.
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September 1, 2009
Okay, so a guy goes into a bar…
No, this is not a joke.
So in June, my Sacramento friends’ son goes into a bar with some friends, in Papua New Guinea. He is an anthropology professor, completing some research there. And the TV in the bar is on. So an anchor on the TV show starts talking about lost loves.
“I know someone who does research on that,” Alex says to his friends.
And then, there I am, in Papua New Guinea! They were seeing the lost love segment I taped for 60 Minutes in Australia. I would never have known it was shown in Papua New Guinea except for Alex’s chance viewing.
I never know where my interviews will pop up. But I can see the countries of viewers of this website. The majority of viewers come from the US, Canada, and Australia. No surprise there, perhaps. But since this redesigned website was launched in June, there have also been many viewers from Russian Federation, India, Belgium, Singapore, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia, followed by France, Japan, China, Israel, Kenya, Egypt, Turkey, and 40 other countries. Who knew?
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June 23, 2009
G’day, Mates,
I just returned from Sydney, Australia! I was invited to be the expert for a segment about lost loves on 60 Minutes (AU TV Channel 9). Everyone involved in this project was wonderful to me, and the production was flawlessly professional. Hugh Nailon was the producer, and I was interviewed by media celebrity Liz Hayes.
I spent one and a half days being interviewed, then did a bit of sightseeing for 2 days before I had to return home. The sleepy koala (pictured) lives in the Sydney Wildlife habitat, next door to a wonderful aquarium, featuring the unusual animals and insects of Australia. I took in Sydney Harbor, with the famous Opera House, and then went by ferry to the beach at Manly. My last day there, I went to
the New South Wales Library to see a Darwin exhibit. I heard rekindled romance stories from several people I met along the way.
The lost love segment was broadcast on 60 Minutes on Sunday, June 21, 2009, in Australia and New Zealand.
Right after it aired, I appeared as their WebGuest (from California, at 3:30-4:30 am!) in a live chat about reunited lost loves. Viewers wrote questions, then I answered them by phone, talking to someone from 60 Minutes who posted my answers. The viewers asked really good questions. Click here to view the chat session transcript.
Other countries might air the segment at a later date, but not the US. Meanwhile,you may view it here or just click the play button on the Featured Video on the right side of this page.
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June 5, 2009
Greetings to Visitors and Faithful Members:
If you have visited here before, you will notice that LostLovers.com has been completely remodeled. The change in style reflects a more modern look, as well as the changes in the lost love topic itself over the years.
Popular features from the old version of this site – the Member Forums, Photo Gallery, Famous Couples – remain. Please visit the Homepage and enjoy the new articles.
I hope you like the new design!
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