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In addition to people in my peer group getting engaged like it’s going out of style, they’re also “moving in” like there’s no tomorrow. Spoiler Alert: I may or may not be among those numbers within the coming year. Let’s leave it at … I’ve allowed the discussion to to be left on the table. This is exciting. This is meaningful. This is a development …
Below is an update from that good friend of mine who up and quit his job a few months ago. When I last wrote, I was fresh off of making one of the most critical decisions in my life. While I was uncertain with what lay ahead, I was confident in the decision I had made, knowing that eventually the pieces would come together. I …
My good friend Michelle observed a very specific change in the way people treated her after she got married – two specific groups of people, to be precise. Michelle is a 30-year-old successful professional both well-liked and well-respected in her industry. She dated her now husband for approximately 2 years prior to their wedding day. Her now husband is an equally well liked/respected member of …
I decided that after almost 4 years it was time for a blog re-design! I think the new look is decidedly more “I’m-in-my-late-twenties-now” than my original. Special shout-out of thanks to Brittany Holloway Brown who successfully re-created me in cartoon form. She knew just what I meant by, “can we try a booty…maybe in a leopard print?” Also, my hair never looks that good. You …
Tonight I will be one among the (hopefully) millions of people oggling at Zooey Deschanel as she makes her network television debut in Fox’s 20-somethings comedy NEW GIRL. It will be the second time I watch this exact episode of television. The first was when the pilot was passed around the TV biz earlier this year (L.A. plus column item #43: advance screeners). I liked …
No, this is not about me…yet. The following guest post is from a good friend and great writer who is exploring a new phase in her relationship through a lens I think many of you will totally understand. Enjoy! ADULTHOOD: Training Wheels Needed! I am the queen of taste tests – in fact, I don’t think I’ve ever walked into an ice cream shop and …
This is one of those questions that I’ve always thought about but never put to blog post. Say you’re just out of a long-term relationship, or say it’s been years since your last legit relationship, or say your Mom is more on your case about the fact that she thinks you’re a lesbian than she’s ever been before. Whatever the circumstance, you want a boyfriend …
I have an overwhelming desire to go “off the grid.” To leave the life of corporate America and make my living off freelance things until I (god-willing) make it as a full-time writer. It’s a desire I’ve been toying with for oohhh six plus years. And yet for the past six plus years I have moved from job to job without so much as a …
Ten years ago today was the third day of my very first year of college – quite literally the third day of what I then thought was my adult life. I remember the haircut of the woman in the elevator of Devlin Hall who said the words, “terrorist attack on New York City,” – that’s how specific that time still is in my mind. It …
I currently have $555 in rolled-up five dollar bills jammed into a Pat O’Brien’s hurricane glass that sits on my bed stand. Please don’t rob me. How and why they got there is a fairly simple story. Sometime around month two of dating I proposed the idea of saving $5 bills to R. It’s an idea that my friend Michael once told me his friend …