The Expiration Date

I am trying to practice the Buddhist ideal of loving kindness. I try to catch bugs instead of kill them, talk to the ants who have made their way into my place, and generally be nice to other humans. I now have a cottage apartment in a late 1890s mansion. The walls and the floors [...]

So I’m minding my own business at CVS, waiting in the pharmacy line for my prescription, when all of a sudden I see a blinding light. No, wait. It’s a man in a bright yellow ski jacket. When my eyes adjust, I notice a really good- (and normal-) looking, clean-cut man inside of it. He [...]

The guy I’m seeing thinks I’m mad at him a lot. Maybe I am sometimes, or maybe I’m just tired because I don’t sleep that well anymore (he snores) or maybe I’m grumpy because now I need to shave my legs every 1.5 days again. Or perhaps it’s because of old emotional triggers that have [...]

Sometimes we’re better off not knowing some things. Take high cholesterol, for instance. I was doing fine until a few years ago when I was told that mine was off the charts and that I would need to take drugs to get it down (translation: immediately age twenty years and inherit the energy level of [...]

An Acronymisnomer I have a new obsession and I’m sure I’m not alone. It’s Facebook, FB as they call it in the inner circle. Yes, I know. I dissed it before I got addicted to it, but it’s a great way to make friends on the other side of the world, look at really cool [...]

One of my fellow writers recently told me that I should write about happy relationships, the hits instead of the misses (or in my case, the misters). If I had a healthy and awesomely rewarding relationship and wrote about it, would I be able to write a column about dating? No. And by the way, [...]