Interrupting New Hampshire
Once swept away in a twister, Dorothy was no longer in Kansas anymore* and once crossing into New Hampshire, it was clear that I was no longer in the Midwest anymore. How? Manners. (Hold that thought.) Dana, my NH date, was the first admitted single dad I dated on this adventure. For understandable reasons, single […]
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Amidst the Leaf-Peepers, At Least One Person Was Going on A First Date in Vermont
I’ve heard a lot of hootenanny about autumn in New England. Being from California, I thought it was all just a lot of hot air.* So I was dance-in-the-fallen-leaves excited to to learn that those people who gush about autumn in places like Vermont are not exaggerating. If anything, they’re not doing the color flurry […]
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A Nip of Nostalgia
When I was a kid, my brother and I spent summers hunkered down in our maroon van with our parents, touring the country. My family is bit 1970s inclined in a variety of ways, from the paisley shirts my father still wears to the wood paneling in our home, and our means of traveling for […]
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West Virginia
Having Megan on every date with me can be a blessing, but it can also throw a monkey wrench into the thick of the datingverse. When my closest ally is gearing up to cheer on her favorite baseball team in the playoffs while I’m gearing up to go on a baseball-themed date, what worries me […]
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Penn State
The hills of Ohio rolled into more mountainous terrain in Pennsylvania as Huckleberry Fit got Megan and myself to the town of State College. Eager to see this famous/infamous town and not eager at all to date after a couple doozies in the dates leading up to this one, I myself had mixed emotions about […]
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Ohio
Let me just say this: Ohio’s date tried to woo me by performing his very own rap with the line Always, like a maxi pad while playing accompaniment on his accordion. And that’s seriously all I’m going to say because Lord, goodness and Joss Whedon know you need to watch the movie and witness the […]
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From Black & White to Technicolor: First Date Attire Powered by ModCloth
As any focused athlete knows, the right apparel is key to performance. So when I decided to enter the dating Olympics – aka, fifty first dates, one in every state – I knew it was time to upgrade my jersey, er, wardrobe. Out with my usual first-date uniform (black shirt with accent necklace, jeans, shoes […]
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Thanks. Give. (Ing.)
America is full of heroes. Yes, there are the all-around-superhero type: NYFD and the people rebuilding New Orleans and all that jazz. But there are lesser-known, heart-of-the superheroes: do-gooders and life-changers who do good and change lives in very quiet, behind the scene ways; who make up a not oft-noted sense of who and what […]
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Indiana
Finding a date in Muncie was not easy. I chose Muncie because of the movie Valentine’s Day. (Topher Grace’s character gets freaked out that his quasi-girlfriend, Anne Hathaway, is a phone sex operator and partially blames his hysteria on his hometown, the one and only Muncie.) Why not pick a city this way? Hollywood described […]
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The Lost Caves of Kentucky
There is nothing like going out with a pretty cool guy and feeling like hey, this dude would make a great friend, and then having your date tell you that girls always seem to think he’s sweet and a good friend, but not dating material. So when I was out with J and this all went […]
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