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Awhile back my dentist went on a tirade about girls and their online dating habits. He said we’re all just too painfully detailed about everything we love and hate — that we don’t give a guy the chance for a little mystery. Valid point, but as what you’re about to read clearly proves — it’s not just a girl thing. I went back and forth …
This past Saturday I got together with a few brave friends for the pilot shoot of a series of digital videos I’m currently calling Sunday Night Sex Talks. You may remember the idea from this post on the convo series we “organized” in college. (Yes I know we shot it on a “Saturday,” but Sunday has a better ring…and traditionally higher web traffic) I’ve been …
Among the endless fascinating things about match.com (the guy-in-ballpark-with-one- male-friend-picture phenomenon, the fact that options for the “do you drink?” field are “no, not really”, “yes, one to two drinks”, or “regularly”, and that I’m universally attractive to 35 year old Indian men) is the reaction you get when you tell people you’ve joined. Drop the “so I’m trying out match” bomb on any close …
I spent the greater part of 2008 being very open-minded about men. I dated someone slightly more conservative, someone mildly less caucasian, and someone much more divorced than myself. I also went on two blind dates with people my gut slash Internet search told me wouldn’t be a match. Some of these were great guys and even greater learning experiences – some of them were …
Patti – I’m confused… I’m a loyal fan of your show, The Millionaire Matchmaker because it is wildly entertaining and oddly informative. Also with every episode I get closer to deciding if you’re a. actually a man and b. don’t have ears. And really P – you do a hell of a business. 99% success rate!? Even if you’re lying by 20% it’s still pretty …
If you asked me to assign it a percentage I’d say that 75% of the time I have no idea what I’m doing with my life. I have a small c career, some hobbies on the side, and what people who live below 14th Street would consider an apartment, but when it comes to the check list of mature adult life (401K, stable relationship, ability …
As you read this I’m en route to a camp site 40 or so miles outside of Chestnut Hill, MA, the home of my beloved alma mater, Boston College. I am driving a mini van full of college seniors to a log cabin in those camp ground’s woods for a retreat entitled “Spark Overnight Series: So You Want to be a Writer?” There along with …
It’s not often that I’m willing to admit I’m a hypocrite, but I thought I owed it to you to come clean on this one. It’s actually really hard to set someone up. I now understand why people don’t offer to do it. Since my soap box post on dating it forward I’ve tried to practice what I preach. I went through my roster of …
I saw it. I enjoyed it. At some points I laughed. At some points I cringed, but I can’t deny the fact that it represented a lot of what really happens out there; good, bad, and vom-worthy. Yes – the movie centered on “the rules” but then ended with most characters ending up the exception. A. Hollywood does that, and B. it is true that …
Monday’s post incited quite a bit of insightful commentary (thank you Pierson). Most of the broo-haha centered on the idea of calling someone out on account of bad behavior. On Monday I implied that people get away with treating people like crap – flaking out, using people and the like – simply because they can…because we let them get away with it. If people stopped …