How Women Wind Up Alone With a House Full of Cats
Early this year, the Boston Globe magazine started a feature called Dinner with Cupid. They’ll pay for a blind date, and they do the matchmaking based on interests, education, age, etc. A photo is required as part of the application, so I assume they’re trying to match up people of a similar level of attractiveness [...]
Sex That’s Not Happening
I’m off to visit my daughter, who’s studying abroad, but I’ve scheduled some posts to be published on my mostly normal schedule (M,W,F). I’m taking my laptop, but based on her crummy online connection, I’m not really sure whether I’ll be able to get to the internets. I hope to, because I love doing the [...]
7 Surprising Lessons Gardening Taught Me About Relationships
“In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death.” Sam Llewelyn I spent my holiday weekend digging holes. I am a gardener, and every year on Memorial Day I plant, and weed, and water, and generally launch my garden for the summer. I confess I feel sheepish admitting this, because I [...]
Mixed Bag
I’m away for a couple of days, but I’m leaving you some toys to play with: 1. Check out Pixcetera’s fascinating look at what magazines do to photos of celebrities. I’ll take Robert Pattinson both Before and After. Love the unibrow, love the crooked nose, love the bed hair. Bite me. 2. Blair Thill, a [...]
Are Emo Guys the Antidote to Frat Poison?
When it comes to perpetrating the hookup culture, one needs only to look to America’s frats to get a close-up of the perps. If it’s wearing a double-popped collar, it’s probably looking for a hookup and little else. He’s a frat god, frat star, frat-tastic! He may be busted, he may be wearing a layer [...]
This is What Love Looks Like
Ahhhh, I am such a cynic about Valentine’s Day. But leave it to Bella English at the Boston Globe to get me all sentimental. Reading this story reduced me to weeping and sobbing this morning. Men like Cesar Muniz are bound to be rare. But there are plenty of good and decent guys out [...]
Move Over St. Valentine, Rabbis Are the Real Romantic Experts
This morning I checked my inbox knowing that my Google Alerts would have coughed up numerous articles about romance, just in time for the imminent, dreaded, Holiday That Must Not Be Named. Sifting through the trite and the cute, I found four separate articles describing recent college speed dating events. Huh? I thought speed dating [...]
College Guy Diagnosed with Chronic Hookup Fatigue Syndrome
This just in! Scientists have confirmed a diagnosis of the first official case of Chronic Hookup Fatigue Syndrome in a college male. Though CHFS has been epidemic among young women in recent years, the scientific community has been baffled by men’s seeming resistance to the illness. Research has focused on the role that chromosomes might [...]
Romance Blossoms in the Dead of Winter
Here in Boston where I live, we’ve been having a brutal winter. Winter is always a long, tough slog around here, especially for a girl who grew up in LA. But this year has got to be a record-setter. Endless snow and ice and dirty slush. The city looks gray and grim much of [...]
Overheard in New York
I used to live in New York, and I loved it, it was wild. New Yorkers are unlike any other population in the world, and they say the damndest things. Shortly after I moved to Boston, I made a waitress cry, and I realized I was probably going [...]
