From the category archives:

Dating, sex and love

The non-date, that wasn’t

May 19, 2009

Continued from the Beginning. We picked a pizza and wine shop for our networking dinner. Or was it a date? I wasn’t sure. Our e-mails had been borderline flirtatious all week and there was definitely some initial chemistry when we met. Those eyes of his… We had originally planned on having lunch after meeting at [...]

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Man Shopping

May 15, 2009

When you’re a mother and dating things can get tricky. It’s why more than ever I have been utilizing a little theory I crafted back in my single and childless days to make sure I remain in control of my dating life. There have been bumps in the road, an errant bad boy or two [...]

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The beginning.

May 10, 2009

I often skip to the end of a story before it even starts. My relationships are no exception. When one begins I imagine the end. But usually they don’t begin with flowers on Mother’s Day and a card from your three-year-old son. I am telling this story without knowing the end and without predicting the [...]

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His eyes, the Governor & Dave.

May 7, 2009

I could swim in his eyes. The only bad thing about being in the dark with the bear is not being able to see them – ice blue, almost transparent and surrounded by his fuzzy face with a smile he saves only for me. The two together – the smile with those eyes melt me [...]

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The dating front

May 4, 2009

I’ve met a bear. It’s quite ironic actually because after I wrote about the tiger and the lion, a bear showed up. What’s even odder is that so many of you had commented telling me only a bear would do. And I sat here reading those comments, wondering – perplexed. Why the bear? What’s with [...]

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My dream man.

March 15, 2009

Does he even exist? Well if I want him to… the first step is believing he does. This week I was interviewed for an article for a local magazine – apparently I’m one of the Top 10 Singles in my city. She asked me a series of questions you might fill out for an online [...]

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A reminder and a secret.

February 16, 2009

On Valentine’s Day I went out with my single friends. The bar was packed. After a toast to being single I wandered off, as I tend to do in new bars. I like to just be alone sometimes. But I couldn’t find a second to myself. There were men everywhere. In fact, the place was [...]

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Oh boy.

February 11, 2009

He’s a boy. Only 25. We were talking stranger talk and I was fumbling through the menu, trying to get my nerves under control (and my stomach) when I asked him his age. The sparkle in his eyes, the blissfully ignorant naivity of youth had given him away on the car ride over. “That’s why [...]

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