I was never into comic books.  I was a completely different kind of geek.  One of those teenage girls who listened to punk (it was the 80s – remember, I am old) and read thick french and russian novels (in translation, of course).  But I never got into comic books. So I never sat around [...]

I love someecards.com.  It’s one of my favorite websites.  I don’t often actually send cards from there.  I just like to read them.  They make me smile. I was surfing the net during the less scintillating bits of the inauguration and I found one that said, “This inauguration feels like the first date with a [...]

Anais Nin wrote, “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage”.  She wrote a lot of other awesome things, too. I try to remind myself of that motto, frequently.  And sometimes I take risks that others would consider foolish.  Sometimes I try things just for the sake of trying them, to see if they’ll [...]

So, I seek out interesting men who I might want to communicate with (online – and yes, if I meet someone in the real flesh and blood world I have no issue with just asking him out also – I’ve talked about that).  So what do I mean by interesting? That’s a complicated thing.  It’s [...]

LisaQ from 20/40 recently mentioned in the comments (it came up in relation to my telling Mr. Potential about it) that she told a man she’d met online about her blog, before they met.  He checked it out and was very encouraging and thoughtful and perhaps even more excited about meeting her after reading her [...]