People change, but not always the way we want them to.  I’m just going to throw that out there as a starting point. I apologize if I’ve already told this story, or parts of this story.  A long, long time ago I was a young college student.  Not a young, naive college student.  I don’t, [...]

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 [...]

My regular readers have probably noticed that the blog has gotten another makeover. What you see up above is the third iteration of my header. Several weeks ago I got a lovely note from one of my very talented readers, Fulay C (you should check out her blog).  She decided to make me a gift [...]

You all know how much I like hearing from you.  I love getting your messages (it’s easy to reach me via the OnSugar system, Twitter DM, facebook).  Not so much the angry/nonsensical tirades in the comments section, but they’re easy enough to delete. Well, a couple days ago I got a message that kind of [...]

I can’t imagine living somewhere that didn’t have seasons. I love it when the leaves change colors. I love the cool spring nights. I love the snow. I even love the sticky New York summers, when I need to hang out by the river to stay cool. But I do hate how cold the mornings [...]