Once upon a time I was a member of an online dating service.  This endeavor resulted in 1 lame date, and countless realizations that I totally just paid for amusing stories to tell at dinner parties rather than affording me the opportunity to meet the love of my life.  Despite the fact that I am [...]

Ah the ill-fated six words of dread every single girl is loath to hear.
I recently saw a preview for a movie of this same title. It looked cute and fun and just the ticket for a sassy girls night out on the town. But underneath all the fun and flirting there was a [...]

So it is a new year.
2009.
Last year I wrote a fun little poem:
Dear 2008,
Please bring me a date
’cause I just can’t wait
to meet my mate!
This year its more like:
Dear 2009,
I don’t mean to whine
but this heart of mine
is not doing fine
it wants to resign
and do more than just pine…
Yeah so here’s to a new year, [...]

This is a question that plagues singles—and even a good number of marrieds—all over this globe! We read books, men and women have discussions with their same-sex friends, men and women talk with their trustworthy “inside scoop” opposite-sex friend, couples work on communicating more clearly their needs and desires, books are written in an attempt [...]

Being single is something that I think about often…more often than not actually. I was thinking about it just tonight, I mean really thinking. Sometimes I feel like a woman with some unknown disease which baffles the experts. I’ve read books; I’ve listened to talks-sermons-lectures; I’ve tried every home remedy—from a suggestion to “wear your [...]

So I tried a stint on eHarmony once…basically I realized that I just bought sixty dollars worth of amusing stories to tell at dinner parties—between the inventory and the profiles, I got 29 dimensions of comedic material.
There are several things that I found frustrating and one of them was that under the section where [...]

I’m not gonna lie,
a little sob
bubbled up and
fell out
of my heart…
when I asked
friends for their
updated addresses
I never would have guessed…
never would have dreamed…
it was innocent enough–
time to send out news letters
and grad announcements
and notes to keep in touch
but then there was this response
from out of the blue
I never saw it coming:
“Are you getting MARRIED?!?!!!”
I choked [...]