Tag Archives: Dating in Los Angeles

The Set Up

This weekend at the Calabasas Pumpkin Festival, my lovely, normally sane, friend asked me if it would be okay if she gave my phone number to her friend (who I had jokingly been calling my boyfriend for six months since he had been unavailable and unthreatening… unlike now). I can only assume that the pumpkin

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Yahoo! Article on the 12 Categories of Single Women

Last night I ran across this article on Yahoo! from Marie Claire.  I’ll admit that I did not know there were 12 categories of single women. I thought there could be hundreds (or thousands) or one category: “Single.”  But no! There are 12. Naturally, I couldn’t resist clicking on the article and finding out my

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Even When You’re Dating, You’re Not Dating

My friend is back in the dating game for the first time in a while, and she’s doing it here in Los Angeles. Needless to say, from the moment she began this process, I’ve been fascinated.  Because I literally do not know people who date here, I thought this would be a terrific experiment in

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The Pros and Cons of Dating

Two of my friends are now actively dating. Both situations came about through online approaches, and it has been an interesting process for me to watch. Last night, one of those women met a man who also wants to find me a date. Interesting. Let’s put aside the fact that no one who has ever

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Well, That Puts Things Into Perspective

Because I like to mentally torment myself whenever possible, I was inspired to create a list of things that did not exist the last time I had a legitimate first date.  By first date, I mean an actual “Gee, you’re kinda pretty, would you like to go out with me and form a meaningful lifetime

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To The Mercedes C230

I get it. You’re driving down Sunset at sunset, and you are thinking, “I’m feeling mighty manly and invigorated by this beautiful evening—I wonder what I should do with all of this energy?”  I’m sure, at a time when I wasn’t already dead inside, I also felt that way (well, probably not the manly part). 

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