I'm sort of convinced that love happens when both parties aren't looking. Like it was unexpected, perhaps even inconvenient. So totally out of the bluest blue. Glorified by the absence of trying.

...

Like the time the wind picked up and my hat flew away, but I still r...

My own sadness after a loss sits between my lower ribs, at the sternum, the same place you'd put the heel of your hand to perform CPR if I were to stop breathing.

(Don't worry, I'm still breathing. I checked.)

When I put pressure there, I feel better. When pressur...

Tin·der

ˈTindər/

noun

a dating application [made of] dry, flammable material, used for lighting a fire

"Sadly, after two of the little piggies went on Tinder, their plans went up in flames."

...

About a year into my ODE (online dating experience), I started talki...

"Please don't go."

Those were the last three words uttered to my husband before he left this world over two years ago. I held on to those words through a series of anxiety attacks and lung collapses until eventually someone brought to my attention the teachings and pra...

Testing, 1...

Several lyrics ago there was this musician. He had heart. He had soul. This would be great, I thought.

The night after I saw his first gig, he drove me back to his place where I left my car. (Actually, it was his friend's place.) He gave me a tou...

My beer is running low. I make my way through a crowded bar to order another. I slide in between a man and an empty wooden stool.

Hmm...There's a scarf and purse on the seat next to his. I ask the guy if he knows who they belong to, but he shakes his head, so I s...

I once met a man from Japan.

(He was over-the-top, I admit.)

Upon his approach, while most others ran,

for a moment with him I did sit.

...

here I was at the bar with this interesting fellow. Instantly I was beautiful, all women were fascinating, and before one could prono...

This one time...at a happy hour...I was approached by a very frustrated gentleman. He expressed to me that his problems stemmed from the fact that, after 32 exhausting years, he remained unwed. Basically everywhere he went, couples were parading around with locked han...

At first I was skeptical about meeting strangers online, often at random. (Note to self: I still am.) There is sense of convenience, however, knowing that potential companionship can be found with a few simple clicks (or swipes). But in a virtual world where profiles...

Scene I:

[Enter modern-day woman, whom, after nine years, is single.]

"I know stuff," she says to herself while straightening her hair. "I'm not a kid anymore."

"Plus, I was married once," she continues. "I've completed the entire dating process, beginning to end. How h...