Adele and Datingverse Sociology
So, I’m at a house-warming party a month ago, kicking back with a glass of homemade lemonade to match my lemon-bar dessert, and a group of 30-somethings are gathered in backyard playing molkky and chewing* the breeze when the inevitable happens: we started talking about our professional lives and woo-eee, did this group of singles and […]
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To Pre-Date, or Not to Pre-Date
During my convalescence*, I read a lot of trashy magazines. This might come as a shock to those who know me (it certainly made my brother do a double take) but I love me some good, old fashioned beauty quizzes, celeb gossip, and dating tips. Sure, the likes of Glamour**, Cosmo and Women’s Health aren’t really my go-to […]
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Americans Are the Heroes (& This Will Never Sell)
Megan here.* No one asks Alicia or me about the good stories from the road. About people being kind to us, opening up their homes, buying us a drink, offering up local knowledge or insider dating advice. Everyone wants to hear our horror stories: the insulting accordion player in Ohio or the Virginian who welcomed […]
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Sunny in Seattle
I watched in glee as the polo players dodged each other in the mad scramble for the ball. Mounts came within inches of each other, sliding on the slick surface, a breath from collision and disaster. Their riders urged them on, as they spun after the ball, mallets held high in the air. The […]
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Meriwether and Me: A Short Aside from Megan
Meriwether and Me: A Short Aside Due to Alicia recovering from surgery these next few weeks, you all are going to be hanging out with me, Megan. So be prepared for my musings on the trip, dating, Alicia, and everything. And though, if I had my rather, I would exist entirely in a Princess Bride/Doctor Who […]
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Portland, Portlandia (By: Megan)
Hello everybody in the 50/50 universe. Due to Alicia recovering from surgery these next few weeks, you all are going to be stuck with me, Megan. So be prepared for my musings on the trip, dating, Alicia, and everything. And though, if I had my rather, I would exist entirely in a Princess Bride/Doctor Who […]
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Full Circle
Endings always make me think of beginnings. After writing yesterday’s post and thought about how the traveling to date ending was hard on me – I thought back to another ending that was hard on me: the original break up, and quitting my job and changing my entire life. So I started looking back. I looked […]
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You Think Beginnings Are Hard? Endings Are Hard.
It’s so weird to be somewhere that feels familiar but you don’t know why. Honolulu feels like that. I know there’s family history here, I know there are stories of my grandparents, my mom, and even me that reside here, but they’re all distant memories, faded too far by gosh knows what. The weirdness feels […]
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The Last Hawaiian Date
Guy or girl, first dates have some things in common: they’re nerve-wracking, overly simple but feel complex, and have the possibility of becoming nothing or an undefined something. The proof of this is in the pudding of my last Hawaiian date, with a girl I met on OkCupid. Our messages were short but not brief […]
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Dating, Venn Diagrams, and Partnerships
When we’re not dating, Megs and I are still dating. It’s impossible not to. No, it’s not like she and I are actually dating in the sense that we’re intimately connected, but our friendship is a mix of business and social, and can feel more like a relationship than a simple palship. Sometimes we’re working with […]
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