We need to be known

I’m tickled that several people enjoyed (and unfortunately could relate to!) my last post about the struggles of online dating. It stinks! So why do I and so many others choose to put ourselves through such an ordeal? The obvious answer is because we hold out some amount of hope that we can find someone […]

The abject misery of online dating

Written in homage to Dave Berry Many of you have not had the privilege of participating in our society’s virtual version of Thunderdome, online dating. If this is you, fear not! I will share with you what this painful exercise in existential horror experience is like. First, some context, because what a person brings with […]

The weight of being single

Anyone who knows me well (or has read my book – buy and/or review it here) knows I’ve been single my whole life, and that fact used to depress me a lot. When I was younger, I was obsessed with being married, and I thought my happiness was contingent on it. For many reasons, though, […]