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Archive for September, 2010

Is being “a catch” a liability in love?

We are not having a nice week in NYC.  It’s been rainy and miserable and every other person is sick (I hear LA is melting, which sounds kinda worse). Today’s guest cheered me up, significantly. It’s from Cougel, who blogs at The Cougel Chronicles: Tales of a Jewish Cougar. Is being “a catch” a liability [...]

It Gets Better

As some of you know, I’ve been fighting a thoroughly ridiculous cold for the past few days. It’s just a cold, but I have a crap immune system and so it always takes me days longer than a normal person to shake things and yes I’m drinking lots of juice, taking my vitamins and last [...]

Do Nice Guys Finish Last?

I work from home, which has its pros and cons.  Yesterday it was pouring rain and so it was great that I didn’t have to go out in it (I did go out last night to pick up juice and soup, as I’m nursing the same damn cold everyone in NYC seems to have right [...]

More Bad Timing

So last week I got an email from a guy I met a few years ago.  We’d met, had one date and nothing ever came of it.  I don’t remember much, but I guess I liked him well enough (told him I’d see him again) and then he started seeing someone else (? seriously, I’m [...]

Holiday Hairdos

This week’s Guy’s Story is from my good friend Jackie Summers. As I’ve said before, you should be reading his blog, F*cking in Brooklyn. It’s awesome. Holiday Hairdos. It’s Halloween. It’s one month after the most romantic night of my life, of our lives up to this point. One month after my grand dramatic gesture and climatic speech, [...]