The most awkward part about your very first job is never the job itself. You probably went to some liberal arts college where you studied some non-practical subject that lead you to some entry-level job based on a description that included things like, “self-motivated” and “detail-oriented” and “multitasker a must.” The tasks themselves were everything you’d been warned about, and you could (did…) knock them …

A few weeks ago we started a new series in which I present a hypothetical dating and/or general life situation, provide my assessment and ask you to judge it as you will. This way it’s like we’re all at brunch and our first round of bloody mary’s just arrived and after taking a massive gulp I silence the group with a, “so I’ve got something …

It’s only for very good reasons that I miss writing a new post on my Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule. Today’s very good reason is that I either have a stage three sinus infection or stage two brain cancer. So on account of the fact that the world is currently most bearable when I’m horizontal in a dark room (but, isn’t that always the case?), I’m …

Sometimes it’s still the simplest steps that stress us out the most. I recently received an e-mail from a blog-reader recounting her g-chat with a male friend – that is if you can call one person questioning, deleting, and re-writing every sentence of a five sentence e-mail and the other person responding, “JUST SEND IT,” in every possible form. The e-mail in question was of …

Now seems like as bad a time as any to expose the fact that I’m a fraud. For the past three years I’ve written a blog focused in large part on dating and relationships while remaining pretty much single and very much inexperienced in the realm of life as a couple. Up until three weeks ago I hadn’t dated someone long enough to “meet” the …