A Day in the Life of 50/50
Midnight: While I am tucked into bed or snuggled onto a couch, either passed out or halfway there sending sleepy, typo-laden texts, Megan is whirling around downloading cards (these little bitty block-like things that go inside cameras…which baffles me. How is it that a Lego-like object can help in the creation of a movie? Not […]
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First Date: Chicago #1
The first thing we did upon rolling into Chicago was gasp at gas prices (almost five dollars a gallon) and decide to hold off on filling our tank. The second thing we did was spot a Chipotle and make a beeline for food with flavor and vegetables. The third thing we did was pick up […]
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More Midwestern Asian Food, and A Date in Wisconsin
Fine, I’ll say it. I went on a date in Oshkosh, Wisconsin and managed not to make any b’gosh references. But I thought them loudly from the moment we entered the city to the moment we left. After the Duluth incident, I wasn’t quite gung ho to immediately go on any dates. Sure, one should […]
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Chinese Food in Duluth, Minnesota
After my Minnesota date, both Megan and I were a bit wiped out and desperate not to socialize with anyone, let alone each other. So we asked the nice hotel desk clerk for recommendations for delivery food in the area that was not pizza (we knew Chicago was coming and didn’t want to ruin our […]
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Minnesota: The Date
To date, no state has done fall like Minnesota. Driving a back-country two-lane highway, Megan and I were in a constant state of crimson, golden and magenta with touches of foresty green. So thick were the trees, we never saw gaps from one to the next unless they were interrupted by a sparkling aquamarine lake. […]
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Phone Call from Bismark
One of the gents I reached out to in North Dakota, Andrew, got back to me after my date with James. Megan and I had treated ourselves to milkshakes and a series of high-fives for our date-finding skills, and then explored prairie dog town and Windblown Canyon in Theodore Roosevelt State Park, taking photos and […]
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North Dakota: The Date
James, who I mentioned briefly in my last post, was my good-natured North Dakota date. Since it was a rush job coupled with absolute blind-date madness, we agreed to meet at a local bar and just drink water. Forty minutes after our phone call, we were sitting across an out-of-service poker table, red velvet walls […]
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How to Get a Date in Just Four Hours
A smoother than a slip-n-slide road trip would be dull. Thank goodness sometimes Megan and I get lost and drive twenty miles in the wrong direction despite GPS, smartphones and even ye olde fashioned map (at which point we know we’ll be drinking a milkshake and reading from Garrison Keillor’s Poems for Tough Times later […]
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Nerves and Dinos
I’ve said it before and I’ll keep on saying it until y’all believe me: dinosaurs make great first date fodder! In South Dakota, I went on my second first date with a Ben and second first date within the paradigm of dinos. Lots of twos on this first date. A mild moment of anxiety whiplashed […]
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My Aunt’s Boyfriend
My aunt is in her early 70s. She has her hearing, coupled with sharp critical thinking skills. She has her hand-eye coordination, which comes in handy for her line of work as a music therapist and ad hoc piano accompanist. She has her health, as demonstrated by every-other-day tennis matches in which she puts women […]
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