I pulled my back out on my date with the A-Hole from Bridesmaids. You know, the Jon Hamm character? A perfect storm of vanity and self-consciousness converged on a bench, when I tried to make my bare legs (100 percent humidity had me in shorts) look their best. I alternated between crossing them (bad for [...]
November 9, 2011
Green Singles is a wild, wild west dating site. Green Singles, true to the obvious hint in the name, is filled with groovy men and women looking to connect over a shared love of the environment and everything gentle and peaceful. Sounded like the place for me. I fancied myself evolved to the point of [...]
October 28, 2011
In Internet Dating Gone Wrong Part 1, I had Chinese food and “intimacy.” Now, I’m hooking up with Jews from New Hampshire via JDate. First, a story. We’re in Israel. We’re in the Old City. There are teenagers (Israeli soldiers) with assault riffles slung over their shoulders and cell phones pressed to their ears and cigarettes [...]
October 20, 2011
Last week, Kate Bolick’s article “All The Single Ladies“ in Atlantic Monthly proposes an idea that many single friends have already openly discussed: stay single or get on the I-want-to-get-married path? Me, I’ve been there, married and divorced. I made a choice to get remarried because I love my (current) husband and believe in marriage. Call me [...]
October 19, 2011
I’m wading into the shark infested waters of dating after divorce dramas to tell a “hypothetical” story. Join dating site in order to avoid becoming a lonely woman in fifties living with cats and marking the calendar between obligatory visits from children. Receive email notification that Ron is interested! With an exclamation point. Despite knowing [...]
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