So, I’ve been sitting on this story for a long while. I didn’t want it to turn into a guessing game. Anyway… I met this guy. Not online. It was almost old-fashioned. He was a friend of a friend or something like that. Someone I was excited about meeting, at first. He was smart and [...]

Commitment? Intimacy? Dying alone? Failure? Everyone’s afraid of something. Maybe more than one thing. Probably more than one thing. When you’re single, like me, you have a lot of people randomly accusing you of being afraid of commitment or intimacy. Maybe it’s not so random? And others who ask you, genuinely, if you’re afraid of [...]

Bizarre factoid I read over the weekend -  in any 48-hour period in 2010, more data was created than had been created by all of humanity in the past 30,000 years.   Deep breath. I just took a couple weeks off from blogging. From blogging and from my blog-related social media stuff, for the most part. It [...]

I’m sure I’ve said this before, I can be pretty oblivious. So caught up in my thoughts and the slog of life that I don’t see what’s right in front of me. Anyway, I was away for a few days. Not too far away. Just far enough to clear my head and get some perspective. [...]

The insomnia club posted again, earlier this week. I wrote something. But it was pretty much the crankiest, most foul tempered thing I’ve written in ages. For some (smart) reason I decided to sit on it and not hit publish. When I woke up the next morning I thought HOLY SHIT, I really don’t want [...]