It’s Friday night and I’m home alone.  No date.  In fact, I don’t have any dates planned for the whole weekend. That’s right.  You read correctly.  No dates for the whole weekend. Now, to be completely open, I did have plans with The GrownUp, but he needed to cancel/reschedule (He has a 17 yr old [...]

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 [...]

My brain is a bit like a slot machine.  I have all of these random, moving parts in there and every once in a while they all line up and bingo, fruit – fruit – fruit, we have a match.  I have a coherent thought made from three otherwise disparate bits of information (hey, either [...]

This is going to be one of those long and twisty posts with lots of links.  I’m warning you now.  I promise you that there is a point (or two). I’ve become quite fond of Twitter.  I think I’ve mentioned that before. This morning @onedatewonder alerted her followers that she’d posted something new on her [...]

I have a date in a few hours, nothing big, just a late afternoon coffee break. This will be my tenth first day in three weeks. I want to be clear here, this is nowhere near a record for me. I can recall hitting 5 first dates a week for a month solid a few [...]