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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Legitimate Dating
Legitimacy is a concern in the dating world. Are you the person you claim to be in your online profile? Will your pictures do you justice? In that vein, being the girl going on fifty first dates comes with its own legitimate quandary. There’s a statement I’m confronted with quite a bit these days. Well, […]
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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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Mich-I-Gan
Megan and I differ on a lot of things. Amount of energy in the morning (me: peppy beyond all reason, wanting to sing “Accentuate the Positive” while I put on running shoes; her: sudoku on her Droid while snuggled under the covers). Sleeping positions when another person or stuffed animal is in the bed (me: […]
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Strange Days
God, my heart hurts. And I’m not even sure what it’s hurting for. Blasting through the country has led to some strange and possibly displaced emotions. Simultaneously I am soaking up the landscape, history, stories and existence of our country on a level that was incomprehensible before (and in many ways is still hard to […]
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Tennessee
A night at the Arrington Winery was all I needed to 1) fall in love with their wine collection and 2) fall in like with Shelly. Shelly was not the typical guy I’ve gone out with, either on this trip or back in my real life in the Bay Area. He was, well…a grown-up. But […]
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