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Lotto a go go
My dating site seems to be a bit of a dud, and I keep trying to find ways to approach it that just might find me a match. But how much of life is just random events, people bump into each other at someone else’s party, end up in the…
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Dating site suggestions
I’m on a dating site that has decided to tell me what I should be writing to my potential datees. Rather than come up with a new opening line for each person I want to ‘like’ I have a collection of what I think are probing questions. Not overly personal…
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The subtext
‘Environmentally aware and interested in living sustainably.’ I like that: my motto is reduce, reuse, recycle, repurpose. Since I move a lot, leaving a small footprint in this world works out well. Fewer things to pack and store. Conversation walking through the wet woods. ‘I used to volunteer with a…
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My first date
I find myself in a frenzy, putting pencil eyeliner on my eyebrows instead of the brown brow pencil. Scrubbing it off with a cotton ball and moisturizer, not wanting to wash my face and have to redo my eye liner. What is going on? My heart beating faster, pulling out…
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You’re a match!
On Dating in the Sixth Decade That’s what the dating site tells me and to reinforce the fact of my matching, I get a small beating red heart. Why is my real heart not beating like my faux heart? How long has it been? A decade – maybe more –…
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On being a ‘fresher’
I am on the move yet again. For the third time in three years, I have packed up my life, put most of it into storage, rid myself of the dead box (that for another post), and whittled my life down to essentials. This time the move was larger, from…
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Randomness
I’m in the thrift store, aka charity shop today, looking for bits and pieces to add to my bare apartment. My real belongings are safely locked up in my storage bin, 3,218 miles away. I need things like a place to put my toothbrush so it can stand up and…
Starting Again 