Dating Life

Several years ago, I met D. at a local bar for our blind (read: internet) date. Apprehensive about meeting D. in person, I cajoled a friend to conveniently show up shortly after our arrival. She did not play it cool. I did not play it cool. D. definitely didn’t buy the coincidence story. Though he didn’t fly off the handle, and we did go out...

When you start dating someone who’s totally in sync with you – someone you can’t wait to see and who can’t get enough of you – the two of you exist in a cocoon of infatuation. You think only of each other, ditching friends and blowing off family members. She thinks he’s perfect and he thinks she has “the one” potential. You’re on the fast-track...

Dating and Other Disasters Series

OMG! I hardly know where to start. I took Jula’s advice (see last blog) and ventured outside in hopes of stumbling over some single men who were looking to DATE, not hook-up. Of course, this is not my...

Dating And Other Disasters Series

I’m off the online dating circuit. That’s right. I’m exchanging my cave bear tendencies for a more active pursuit of a dating life. Aside from my dismal luck finding date magic in cyber space, I read something over the holidays that really hit home. No, it wasn’t anything that...

Remember in high school when you were at a party or hanging out with friends and the boy who liked you (hopefully the one you liked, too) coerced you into the bedroom or out to his car/truck/van with the old, “I have something to show you” ruse? Perhaps it was his first ever CD – Green Day’s “Dookie” — or his new comic book, or his Pulp...