Tag Archives: dating

Life Goes On

Posted on July 7, 2011 by

I have spent most of my adult life in relationships.  By association, I have been through a number of hairy breakups — the last three culminating in litigation, a divorce, and the other party’s laughably awful infidelity.  I could say … Continue reading →

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Single Ladies

Posted on June 29, 2011 by

(Part Fifteen in my series on my six years in New York) I did not come to New York expecting to ever be single in New York.  In fact, I have not really ever been single in my adult life.  … Continue reading →

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Or Not

Posted on June 16, 2011 by

(Part Five in my series on my six years in New York) Europe again? Paris, yes.  Just barely 24 hours, though. Where are you staying? I told him, my old friend.   He’s a pro at Paris; is here often; he … Continue reading →

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Planes; Trains; Automobiles…Wrong Side of the Road Edition

Posted on June 4, 2011 by

Reverb 11 – May Prompt: If you participated in Reverb 10 during December of last year, are any of the things you wanted to manifest in 2011 revealing themselves? Truth be told, I’ve been sitting on different iterations of the … Continue reading →

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How to Tell, Part II

Posted on May 8, 2011 by

How To Tell If He’s (Not) The One (Revised and updated from a much earlier blog post, with a new ending) Without going too deeply into it, I used to date a man I called George Meredith (Meredith, of course, … Continue reading →

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I Am Not Carrie Fisher

Posted on December 23, 2010 by

December 23 – New Name. Let’s meet again, for the first time. If you could introduce yourself to strangers by another name for just one day, what would it be and why? I had, for a time, thought my parents … Continue reading →

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Everything’s Fine

Posted on August 6, 2010 by

Mr. & Mrs. H called and checked in on me while I was in a taxi on Park Avenue.  The night was wearing on. Mrs. H wanted to tell me that she’d read what I’d written; that it was okay … Continue reading →

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Through the Looking Glass

Posted on August 3, 2010 by

So I looked.  Can you blame me? He was out, and he had left the computer with me.  My coming to review the emails; chats; etc. was never intentional, per se — I won’t bore you with the story of … Continue reading →

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The Continuing Narrative of Non-Native Daughter

Posted on May 26, 2010 by

I bumped into my best friend from middle school, DS,  in the subway yesterday, waiting on the uptown 6 platform in the belly of Grand Central. He and I have always been close–even after he moved, then I moved, then … Continue reading →

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Therapyspeak

Posted on February 1, 2010 by

I find myself increasingly attracted to so-called “normal” men.  The kind who are not addicted to something or do not have near-patricidal oedipus complexes or…that sort of thing.  You know, the kind of men who are just sort of garden … Continue reading →

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