Nothing Says First Date Like a Cat
When you hear the words “rock climbing” you might not be equating it to “awesome first date experience!” I certainly wasn’t, but when ZOZI presented the opportunity to hit the world’s tallest indoor climbing silos in Dallas, Texas, I wasn’t about to object. Giant silos plus my fear of heights and a stranger? Whether or […]
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Louisiana, the Date
Bless me readers for I have sinned: I didn’t mention that my Louisiana date also happened to be our homestay. See, a friend’s ex-boyfriend knew about my trip around the county and recommended his friend, Chris, as either a potential New Orleans date, potential NOLA couch to crash on, or hey – both! The night […]
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Megan’s 50th State – Crossing the Louisiana Border!
A sort-of distant family relative I’d never met hosted Megan and me in rural Mississippi. I knew we weren’t not-in-the-way, so the fact that she had insisted, welcomed us with open arms, oatmeal at the ready for breakfast and a glass of wine at the ready when we walked inside, was downright mind-blowing. The family […]
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Reflections on M-i-s-s-i-s-s-i-p-p-i
Thanks to Mr. Mississippi, I can now confidently say that I have both been on bad first dates myself, and witnessed a bad first date from start to finish. Watching Megs experience a date that evolved from reasonably okay to ginormous freaking trainwreck that might have also plowed into a few donkeys being gnawed on by Sasquatch […]
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Does Being Content Lead to Being Solo?
It never fails: when I should be doing work, or writing about something like the follow up to a bad first date I witnessed in Mississippi, I am instead overcome with thoughts spurred by yesterday’s series of conversations. Amid sunshine and starshine, we were talking about relationships, both where we’d been in the past dating […]
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I’m Calling Some Shenanigans
Every year, my friend Liz used to write reflections about Valentine’s Day. Sometimes she was single, sometimes she was taken. This year, for the first time, she’s engaged for the holiday, and this time next year she’ll be married. She was in town for the week of V-Day, and for the first time since she’d […]
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‘Bama (the Al Kind, Not the O Kind)
Not sure if anyone else is keeping count, but Megs and I occasionally take a mental tally of how many great, good, indifferent, bad, and atrocious dates I go on. With drive times getting longer (how did the west get so big and east get to be so small? Weird proportions, former leaders of America. […]
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The OkCupid Rebound Rumormill
I’ve heard it on good authority (aka, other daters) that OkCupid and Plenty of Fish are known for harboring a deep, dark secret: they’re a hotbed of guys and gals on the rebound. The Rebound is actually not a bad romcom movie title, but a state of “going from one relationship to the next right […]
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Florida’s Redneck Riviera
We spent two days in Florida, on a little patch of the state known both fondly and jestingly as the Redneck Riviera. It’s true, we didn’t go for the more “stereotypical” beach cities of Miami or Orlando, where bikinis and Aloha shirts reign. This was a definite choice on my part – we’d seen Atlantic […]
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A Return to the Current State of Why
You know what I haven’t chattered on about for awhile? Why I’m on this trip. I figured the reasoning would evolve as we traveled. Forward motion and progression are natural after all. And darn it, as Dave Eggers says, “statis itself is criminal,” especially when we’re talking about intending to discover something, even if that […]
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