Mates in Minutes

It only stands to reason that, since you spend at least half your waking hours at work, odds are good you’ll eventually bump into somebody you want to spend more hours with. After all, you have common work interests. You hang out in the same general office space. You know many of the same people….
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Even if you flunked high school science and you can’t pronounce "phenylethylamine," let alone spell it, you ought to know that it’s the secret ingredient for concocting a truly tasty first date.
Phenylethylamine (PEA) is the natural "love drug." It controls all those powerful brain chemicals that…
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Remember those TV commercials for beauty products that cost a bit more than the rest? Sure they cost more, the model says. "But I’m worth it!"

When L’Oreal launched that campaign some years ago, it was startling to hear a woman assert her own value. It was a strange concept. But it was a wildly…
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I heard on the news tonight that there’s a new, exclusive dating site where you are required to "be good-looking, or be rejected."  Frankly, as a writer, I get enough rejection. But, my curiosity got the best of me and I decided to check it out anyway.
The rules of engagement on this site are…
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I recently read an article espousing the joys of celibacy. My first thought: What bloody joys?

I read on, and learned that now there are more people than ever who claim to be "happily" single.

This description annoyed me. It seemed oxymoronic.

Being single certainly has advantages. And…
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There is a tendency in relationships to put the blame upon one’s self when our partner is not accepting of something about ourselves. In my situation, I spent many years upsetting my own sense of self-worth by my partner’s rejection of me physically. When the understanding finally came-from…
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Having been one of those females that grew up thinking and believing that the prettiest and most confident girls got it all, I just had to share with others who also thought this way a letter that was written to an advice columnist and published in our local paper this morning. Here it is…
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A couple of months ago, a colleague of mine was talking to me about the dissolution he was experiencing in his marriage. Among one of the things he could not understand was her reaction to his flirting with other women. He honestly could not understand why this upset her.
I looked at him in a kind…
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