I scrubbed each kitchen tile with vinegar, doused stainless steel appliances with cleaner to remove all streaks, lemon-oiled the two halves of the dining room table and… Read More »Darkness Simmers Beneath My Surface
Dates have come and gone bye-bye. Let me see. One friend didn’t appreciate my letting him pay for our first several dates, whereas I thought I… Read More »Shoot Me, I’m Dating Online (8)
Help! Profile pictures confuse me. Many men are wearing sunglasses, often standing in front of a car next to a large dog. Let’s think about this for… Read More »Shoot Me, I’m Online Dating (7)
“Didn’t I tell you that I had a thing for serial killers?” I wrote to a fellow traveler after he suggested that we meet to make sure… Read More »Shoot Me, I’m Online Dating (6)
A broken heart is an open heart, at least that’s what I hear. So here’s to all us online daters because after being disappointed and… Read More »Shoot Me, I’m Online Dating (5)
Skate boarding through the chatrooms of lonely algorithms, I meet a contractor who wants to know my idea of a life-partner I text him caring,… Read More »Shoot Me, I’m Online Dating (4)
One day at a time. Right? As I waited in line to cross the San Francisco Bay Bridge from Oakland, the agent waved me past… Read More »Shoot Me, I’m Online Dating (3)
Without so much as a flirt, I already I had a mark against me. I’d been rejected by the online photo police for posting a… Read More »Shoot Me, I’m Online Dating (2)
The going wisdom in the world of online dating is “You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find a prince (or princess).”… Read More »Shoot Me, I’m Online Dating! (1)
Outside the deck two birds wade in birdseed, one small, a dark-eyed junco, the other, twice her size, a brown- headed cowbird a step away… Read More »Different Species