Love

Last week my car battery died, and I decided that it’s ok to need a man in your life. I promise the rest of this post will be less dramatic, but not by a lot. It was a Thursday night and R and I were on our way back from Thousand Oaks, California where we’d gone to see my good friend Paul in his performance …

To be totally honest, I haven’t written about the lost distance thing because I don’t know what to say. I’ve never really done it. There was a brief, undefined something with a guy in D.C. while I was in New York, but I don’t think you can count it if it ends before it’s defined. And then I did first meet R while he was …

Bear with me. This is a little hard to explain. The other day I was trying to express the fact that sometimes I have these moments where my “single girl badge of honor” rears its head. It’s almost devil-on-the-shoulder style – this tiny voice scoffing and then rolling her eyes at whatever couple-y activity I’m about to engage in or “we”-based compromise I make. “You …

Some people are always concocting half-baked theories about why things are the way they are in the interpersonal department. Theories like why some girls are always attracted to assholes and why some guys seems to prefer crazy girls and why after three months you know if you really want to be dating someone or not. Some people think they know everything. Other people dole out …

I’m re-writing last Wednesday’s post – the one about learning to speak relationship. When I wrote it, it didn’t feel quite right. I think I launched into it wrong and made it jokey-er that I originally intended. I re-read it the other day and decided I missed the point I was trying to make. It’s not that what I wrote isn’t true. It’s that it …

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 …