‘Don’t Be Afraid to Go Out Looking’ and Other Love Lessons from My Mother

May 8, 2011

My mother in one word: Fearless. When she was a kid her mom chased her with a broom for daring to utter the word “sex” in her strict Catholic household. She brought home the bacon and lived a happily independent co-existence with my equally independent father during their nearly 40 years of marriage. When my [...]

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Love: The Reason Bridget Jones Is My Hero (and Why I Will Watch the Royal Wedding)

April 28, 2011

Here is why Bridget Jones is my hero, why I laughed aloud and marked passages when I first read her diary and why I’ve read it countless times since:  Because Bridget, as the refreshingly flawed girl-like-us, reminded us modern Singletons that it’s okay, even in this world when girls can do and be anything, to [...]

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Found: My Very Own Good One

April 1, 2011

It started on eHarmony.  After nearly closing out my account for disgust over the grim selection of mate potential as of late, I begrudgingly checked my latest matches just in case Prince Charming had grown sick of dating princesses and decided to open an eHarmony account.  And suddenly there he was on my computer screen, [...]

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A Girl, Her iPod, and 5 (Make That 5.5) Miles

March 27, 2011

“Leave a message after the tone.”  BEEP!  “Hey, sister, I’m about to tackle the five-mile in Percy Warner Park, so if you don’t hear from me by, say, nightfall, send a search party.” Mile .1.  Johnny Lee, “Lookin’ for Love.” No babyish 1.2-mile walk for me today.  I’m playing with the big boys: the FIVE-mile [...]

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Cures for the Friday-Night Lonelies

March 11, 2011

It’s Friday night, and you look up from the computer screen you’ve been staring into since Monday morning, rub your eyes and realize…that you forgot to make Friday-night plans.  You picture the whole world out on the patio of a gigantic earth-sized Mexican restaurant drinking margaritas and dipping chips into guac without you. And suddenly [...]

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Men Are Like Hash Browns

March 5, 2011

“Scattered, covered, chunked, and diced,” I recite to the Waffle House server from memory, because that’s how I always take my Waffle House hash browns.  I do consider, for one rebellious moment, adding “capped,” Waffle House code for mushrooms.   But in the end I chicken out.  Anyway, I know the perfectly balanced combo of scattered [...]

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Evolution of a Birthday Wish

February 8, 2011

It was the trend at birthday parties of my youth to count the number of your boyfriends by the number of lit candles left on your birthday cake after your effort to blow them all out.  “Amy has a boyfriend!” the partygoers would shout if one lit candle remained.  Heaven forbid two or more flames [...]

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Bring Back the Front Porch and Mint Juleps

February 1, 2011

February, the month of hearts and romance and love and cupid — old-fashioned notions that hardly seem to have a place in today’s buy-it-online, instant-gratification-craving world.  What better time to revisit those days B.I. (Before the Internet) and consider how two people ever found love without the assistance of an app and nimble texting fingers? [...]

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Dating Mac: Why I’ll Never Go Back

January 13, 2011

I’ve spent the better part of the last three weeks transferring, transporting, exporting, importing, migrating, shuffling, and yanking — kicking and screaming —my entire computer world (a/k/a my entire world) from my (bleeped up) PC to my new Mac.  Once you go Mac you’ll never go back, as they say, and, well, the power button [...]

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A Single Girl’s Resolution for a New Decade: Cosmo Girl Kicks Career Girl’s A**

December 31, 2010

The last decade, you could argue, was the prime of my life, at least when it comes to finding a man.  Late 20s to late 30s.  I had my own bachelorette pad, a relatively fat-free and wrinkle-free and chin-whisker-free body, and all the freedom in the world. Boy, did I squander that opportunity.  My decade [...]

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