Good Night, Travel Well

It’s been a while, no?  I said in my last post, that for once I wanted to just  experience what I was experiencing.  To live it, but not feel like I had to write about it.  But blogging is a part of my life.  I couldn’t stay away too long.
So here it is: I’ve been [...]

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I Got Red Blood, and I Got Blood Red Wine

“I had four glasses of wine last night,” I declared to my friends on Sunday evening.
“Nice, where were you,” was the typical reply.
“On a date.”
“How’d it go?”
“I had four glasses of wine!” I’d remind them.  And realization would cross their faces.  “Oh…Dating sucks.”
Yes, yes it does, but let’s back up a bit.  To Thursday.  I [...]

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Never

I’ll never know why.  And that’s the hardest part about it all.  Because “things happen” doesn’t explain to me why I wasn’t enough.  Or how it could spiral from something you called “amazing” to nothing.  Why you were so full of contradictions in this whole thing, that my head is still spinning.  Or why, in [...]

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Ouch!

You know those commercials where the perfectly nice people are rejected by eHarmony?
Yeah, me too. “Unable to match you at this time.”
I feel like I’ve reached a new personal low in dating when even a Web site doesn’t want me…
Update:  Now the matches are a-coming in.

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The One Where I’m a Dog

Or, Why My Friends are Awesome
Kid logic. I heard the term once on NPR. It’s when a kid makes what to them is a perfectly logical conclusion, but is just totally wrong. We’ve all been there. When I was two or three years old, I would watch my dad pick up the phone and talk [...]

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Makes Me Wonder

I’ll be the first to admit, I am definitely not the most open person when it comes to dating.  Lately, I’ve realized I’m so terrified of rejection, I close myself off.  So I am really trying to make an effort to be more open.  In the end, I wind up doubting and second-guessing myself.  So, [...]

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A Pre-Midnight Toker

So a little more than two months ago, I joined America’s #1 online dating website (they say). And a little less than two weeks ago I went out on a date with a guy. It was…interesting, to say the least.
We had been in touch and fell out when he emailed me to see [...]

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