Googling is so last year
Googling someone you want to date or are about to date is such a lame thing to do that I don’t even know where to start. While it’s okay to google a prospective client or business associate or new roofer, I refuse to google a prospective date or romantic partner. Googling someone to see what’s […]
Survival strategies of the wackiest
Oh, BIG apologies all ’round for my slacker-tude in posting (not posting actually) lately. Um, I’ve been trying (and I use that word optimistically) to figure out how to SURVIVE in a world gone mad. Yes, mad! Damn. Is it just me or is everybody scrambling?
First date, last date? Follow my dating do’s and don’ts to make it to round two
Is anybody else out there wondering at what point it’s easier to just stay home rather than keep putting yourself “out there” first date after first date? It’s a crazy world here in Sarasota for singles. I’m not sure what they put in the water down here, but Sarasota men, I’m sorry, have got the […]
St. Patrick is smiling on me … MC in today’s Sarasota Herald-Tribune
If you’re a daily newspaper reader and want to catch me in print … the Sarasota Herald Tribune picked up a piece I wrote about believing you’ve got the luck of the Irish … even if you’re not Irish and even if it’s not St. Patrick’s Day. You can read it at that link just […]
Magical music in the March nights
The past couple of weeks, at night, just around this time, 10:15 p.m., my home is quiet, I’ve hopefully turned the computer off, and I’m sitting, perhaps reading, or paying a bill or two, maybe just petting a cat. Winding down from the day and sometimes, and I’m not proud of this, thinking about tomorrow […]
If the Red Sox can win the World Series …
Can you tell I’m pining for romance? … yet another treatise on the day I like to bash the most (but apparently love despite my bashing!). —————————————— I’m not a big fan of Valentine’s Day. At least that’s what I’ve been telling myself since my divorce. Before my marriage, I was lucky enough to have […]
Valentine’s Day — real romance costs nothing!
It’s not because I’m divorced that Valentine’s Day fills me with a kind of internal cringing normally reserved for the sound of nails dragging down a chalk board. It’s not sour grapes or cynicism gone amuck. It’s simply that Valentine’s Day has, over the years, evolved into a competition, one that devalues spontaneity, simplicity, romance, […]
The bedability of yours truly … and other factors in being a literate society
Speaking of newspapers, the demise thereof, and this writer’s potential contribution to said demise, here’s a column I wrote a year back — in response to a reader’s complaint about my use of the term — send the children out of the room for this one, folks — “bed-ability” in my column called Reality in […]
Letter to the editors
Dear Editors Back in the day, you’d buy the Sunday Sarasota Herald-Tribune and be assured of curling up for an hour of juicy reading, drinking one or two cups of coffee while fending off the cats who felt it was their duty to hold the paper down on the floor by sprawling languidly across it, […]
Five hundred words of foreplay
This column was written back in my Pelican Press days when I’d just been given a reduced word count for the Reality Chick column … . Given the decreasing size in newspapers across the country (have you seen the Sarasota Herald Trib lately?) this column still feels germane. ————————- I’ve recently been given a word […]