Sometimes I read stuff that I really want to comment on, but it takes me a few days to figure out exactly what I want to say. And then there are other times when I read something so smart, so important that I realize I have nothing really substantive to add.  This is one of [...]

Meet – verb: to come upon; come into the presence of; encounter I do a lot of online dating.  This isn’t a new thing for me.  I’m an online dating veteran, having first tried it out in the late 90s back when very few people posted pictures of themselves. Frequently, when I’m talking about a [...]

A long, long time ago I worked with this woman, I’ll call her Beth.  Beth was nice enough and smart enough and certainly not unattractive.  She just wasn’t a hot commodity on the dating market. Somehow she found herself dating this perfectly nice man, I’ll call him Ted.  He seemed really nice and was, I [...]

I have no idea what made me think of this… A few years ago I met this guy (online).  We had a pretty great first date.  I thought he was smart and funny and cute – all the good stuff.  And he seemed really into me.  Almost too much.  Which caused a little warning bell [...]

The other day my dear friend Singlegal wrote a post that included a description of a date she had, about a year ago: “About a year ago, I was sitting in my car and listening to a guy I was “dating” talk about how he’s never been to the dentist. This guy was overweight, self-centered, [...]