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Archive for the ‘I am not a role model’

Mirror Mirror on the Wall

I’m lucky to have some pretty awesome friends. Awesome and talented. Awesome and talented in ways that I am so not. It took me a year of living and working in my new apartment before I could figure out what I might want it to look like – furniture and decoration wise. That stuff just [...]

Guacamole and Sarah Vaughan

Yesterday was an extremely stressful day for me, personal life wise. Lots of frustrating calls to the insurance company, drs office, pharmacy… THAT kind of day ( I know there are some of you who can relate). Anyway, it ended with me crawling into bed with a great book (1Q84 - so unbelievably awesome) and [...]

After the War

Just because I’ve been kinda out of commission lately doesn’t mean I haven’t mean paying attention to the world around me. OK, well… the truth is I’ve been paying very selective attention. Less energy has meant getting picky about these things and one of the first things to go was, funny enough, social media. Not [...]

No One’s Looking

Have you ever been having a perfectly pleasant conversation, and then all of a sudden someone says something that makes you realize OMG you really are an asshole? I have this vague memory. I was hanging out with a boyfriend. I was already starting to realize that he might in fact be a bad person. [...]

I Still Get to Say No

So a funny thing happens when you’re my age and still single, well many funny things… One of those funny things is that there lots are people who assume you should “stop being so picky.”  And that the reason I’m single is that I’ve been turning away perfectly good guys for random, frivolous reasons. Oh, [...]