Those who know me, or have stepped foot in my apartment, know that I’m Halloween obsessed. Pumpkins currently line all available countertops in my living room. Skeletons hang on every door. Ours is the only home on the street with orange lights. Life, at this time of year, is good. A friend recently joked that [...]

Ever had that feeling that the thing you’re experiencing now you’ve already experienced in a dream? Ever wonder if your dreams contained not only images from the past but also from the future? “I’m eating a frozen banana while listening to Neil Diamond. Wait, I’ve done this before!” As an assignment for my Lolita class [...]

The Beatles: Rock Band addiction, like all good addictions, has begun with anti-social behavior and healthy dose of cultural critique. Instead of going out with friends this past Saturday night, my husband Scott and I stayed home to crack open our latest purchase. I’ve been a Beatles fan since I was old enough to crawl [...]

Even in a sea of bad first messages and worse ones, sometimes I do receive a piece of OkCupid email that makes me smile. Here are a few from my inbox that actually got a response — though they’re few and far between. Take that as a good sign, online daters. For straight boys, for [...]

I have officially entered the future. Or, more accurately, I’ve entered the present — only a year or two behind my contemporaries. After much debate I broke down earlier this month and bought an iPhone. I had been using my husband’s for reviews, and finally decided that I was missing out on enough button pushing [...]

It occurred to me that while I’m in the business of posting public service announcements to the online dating site users of the world — i.e. examples of what definitely not to write in messages to would-be new friends — I should also point out some of the more subtle ways in which attempts at [...]