The Ostarello Way of Expressing We Care
In my family, I’ve got an article for you is synonymous with I love you.* My dad is the most famous for this gesture, but it’s not limited to him. My mom has been known to cut out and save an article until she sees me again. Zio Jim and my father shoot articles back and […]
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A Little Bird Told Me
I was never an avid Twitter user until Megs and I embarked on 50/50. It’s not like I had a good reason to avoid the little blue bird (unless you count the fact that I tend to write in long sentences instead of short sentiments, which makes that whole “140-characters-or-less” rule even more challenging than […]
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They Never Go Away
Ed note: Folks, meet Christine! She’s the second in guest blogger to enter the 50/50 arena (giving you fresh voices, new points of view, and a little extra time for Alicia to work on her book and Megan to finish the movie. Christine is a veteran to online dating – it’s even how she met her […]
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I’d Like to Believe I’m a Nice Girl
Nice girls finish last, too. Not with relationships, necessarily, but with themselves. Before they are nice girls, though, they are good girls. Sitting so still, blending into the rose-colored upholstery while the grown-ups chatter above and around them. They nod, doe eyed or deer-in-the-headlights, as adults tell them to “Think about others first,” and hiss, […]
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A Look Back to Fall
Looking down, the faded turquoise-peach-navy carpeting swirled, probably from mild dehydration that comes from over an hour of heart-pounding exercise.* This cheap-motel inspired atrocity rested, strangely enough, in the living room of my new-to-me, old-to-my-new-roommate, apartment. Margo and Van, two bengal-style cats crawled furiously over, under and through my legs as I pulled myself through crunches […]
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New Moon Love vs. Real Life Love
Ed note: apparently holidays lead to writer’s block. First, because attempting to make an earring selection at Clare’s for your second-cousins is wildly mind consuming, and second, because every time you sit down to edit something reasonably good you’ve written, you get distracted by Julie and Julia and sparkly wine, or by home movies and […]
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Quick Quote: Maria Headley’s Year of Yes
To anyone who’s asked what it’s like to have gone on fifty first dates, I have to say Maria Headley said it quite well at the end of her memoir, The Year of Yes: “The Playwright slept, and I curled against him, listening to the sounds of the city: a helicopter passing overhead, taxis honking, […]
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A Script for an Over-the-Phone Just Not That Into You Convo
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, I asked other people advice about dating. Who am I kidding, I still totally do that! Needing dating and relationship advice never goes away, whether you’re on a first date, ten months into a relationship, recently engaged or married for thirty years. Anyway, I was […]
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When a Kinesiologist Starts Thinking Critically About The Game
My brother, my friend Nessa, and I explained Neil Strauss’ The Game to my kinesiologist father this Thanksgiving. T-day with my parentals tends to go something like this: enjoy champagne, a lengthy meal and dessert at a well-set table (use your silverware from the outside in and make sure your napkin rests in your lap), then […]
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The 50/50 Teaser is Here!
Fabulous news. Completely fabulous news. Wildly fabulous. So fabulous, I’m just going to let it speak for itself.
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