I remember a time when shopping would relax me. I would spend hours at the mall, leisurely looking at pretty things and fantasizing about where I might wear them, although if I bought them, most of them sat in my…

During one of my short-lived bouts of insanity and Internet dating, I encountered a handsome gentleman. After speaking to him on the phone, I felt like I needed to stop talking and keep on walking. Something just didn’t feel right.…

He was my first boyfriend at a legal age, not counting my kindergarten romances. When I was sixteen, he almost killed me. The handsome boy with the green eyes who had dropped a Porsche engine into a Volkswagen, unwittingly dropped…

by Robyn Justo – Four years ago, I wrote a column piece about 2012 and I was the voice of Chicken Little. If you are reading this, then it’s January 2013 and we are all still here, or at least…

By Robyn Justo – Someone recently asked me what types of things I write about and I immediately went into a description and classification of my work. “Oh, I write a comedy column … and I also write about more…

By Robyn Justo – I am not sure what has possessed me to move so much recently. The moment I get settled in somewhere and I’m finally able to exhale, a little voice whispers, “Don’t get too comfortable” and I…

By Robyn Justo – I was having lunch with a friend recently and he told me a funny story about his three-year-old daughter. He also has a son who is a few years older than his little girl and they…

By Robyn Justo – So please enlighten me. What is the point to establishing a relationship with someone if the underlying desire is to have more than one partner? If someone wants to spread the love (or the sperm) then…

By Robyn Justo – In my 40s, I attracted a few 20-somethings. I found love notes on my door from kids I could literally have mothered, and delicately declined their fervent offers. But I did say yes to a couple…

by Robyn Justo – Insight comes when we least expect it, like when we are trying to outsmart Facebook and get rid of the photo pages with scroll bars. (The secret is on our keyboards: F5. Press it and presto!…

By Robyn Justo – I don’t know about you, but it takes me a good couple of hours to boot up in the morning. For some reason, I seem to have forgotten how to sequence. What comes first? Coffee wins…

by Robyn Justo – There was a time when I was a novice on the internet. That was also about the time that a friend convinced me to try a dating site for the first time. In those days, one…

by Robyn Justo – Typically when I go off on a tangent and write about subjects other than dating and relationships, an unhappy reader will write and scold me. So trust me on this. This article will come full circle.…

By Robyn Justo – One of my readers emailed me the other day. “Another break-up?” he queried, after reading my most recent column. I had to giggle, as I realized how it might look to someone on the outside. To…

As I entered the crosswalk this afternoon in downtown Santa Fe (I had the light and the little walking man icon on my side), a car approaching from my left was aimed and headed through it too and fast approaching…

By Robyn Justo — Some species mate for life – man not being one of them, oddly enough. Swans, gibbons, bald eagles, some species of birds and even termites and some parasitic worms (know I’ve dated a few of those…