Throwback Thursday: Morning Creep

I am a believer in online dating. I was using the personals way back in the way back. Meeting folks in the City Paper… With NO PICTURES in the 90s! So I know my way around a blind date. And I’m pretty proficient in weeding out the “crazy” prior to it showing up on my…

Q and A (NaPoWriMo day 8)

still playing catch up… this thing you want me to figure out I doubt you dream about but I imagine nights long into dawn knees hugged tight to breasts sheltering a heart so weak shallow beats glue drying still from the repairs of last week last month last year With elation and trepidation (yes, fear)…

hindsight (NaPoWriMo day 1)

hindsight i wish we could go back. i remember our very first chat. it was a friday.  
you were on a train coming from nyc.
  i was sitting at my desk in my office way past the time for me to leave.
  you invited me over to eat that very first night. i declined… but…

Hypothetically Speaking…

Ladies. Take heed. Hypothetically. So even if you’re feeling comfortably frisky and tipsy on a first date, do NOT under any circumstances, either real or imagined, give your date head in the car afterwards. Yes, you are both adults, and yes, it might be fun and a little risqué, but from that point on whenever…

Confessional: I love First Dates!

I think I’m addicted to “first dates.” Don’t laugh. Like I seriously have a problem. I love going out with someone for the first time. It’s all fresh and new, everyone is on their best behavior, there are rules. I get to be an unknown quantity… You know what I mean. Conversation is easy, you…