The Single Life: Random Adventures in Awesome

Swallowing Memories

Sitting in my parent’s house, I stare at the spot on the living room floor where I broke up with my boyfriend of nine years. He had fallen to the floor in a moment of ...

Relationship Ying and Yang

I took a hiatus. Rather, I started a blog about my single life in San Diego then met a man who I have now been dating for about two years. I stopped writing because I ...

Juice for breakfast lunch and dinner...I have one more day to go then back to delicious salads and veggie dishes. Now, speaking from experience, the five days of juicing is really difficult. The actual act ...

I've been Cruising

Every meal thus far has been delicious....amazing. This is not a fast so much as an introduction into another way of cooking and thinking about food. It is an attempt to eat fresh produce, mostly ...

So Far, So Great!

I am not sure if it is my general great attitude or this veggie thing is really working. Today is day two and I feel really good. I thought I might be cranky or experiencing ...

Last Cup of Coffee

It is 2:26 PM on Tuesday and I am drinking my last cup of coffee for 15 days. In my continuing life as an unemployed writer, I have been watching documentary after documentary via Netflix. ...

Week 1 and Day 2 of Being Unemployed

My goals are simple since becoming unemployed: apply for jobs, cook (a la the movie Julia and Julia) and exercise. So yesterday, despite staying awake until 3:00 AM because "I don't have to work the ...

Love is a Battlefield

We all date. And we all date for a varied number of days, weeks, or for the truly brave, years. I count myself amongst the fearless soldiers of singles who lived in the trenches while ...

MIA

Today I began thinking about writing again because my reasons for not writing had run out: No time, too busy, new boy, too many birthday and social events, it’s beautiful outside, I have to clean ...

Faith Restored

Let me begin by recommending the stay-cation. I know it is a function of our flailing economy, but it allows one to enjoy his or her everyday environment outside of the confines of the daily ...

Response to: Kissing Cousins (errr, mothers) and Interracial Dating

Josh Board wrote an article entitled, “Kissing Cousins (errr, mothers) and Interracial Dating.” In that article he discussed oddities and extremes. He moved from talking about families and inappropriate displays of affection to interracial dating. ...

A Hot Tub, A Stripper, and An Escort

How do I start? This may reveal some kind of prejudicial side of me, but I prefer to see it as discretion…or sanity. So it goes, I ended up on a rooftop somewhere downtown with ...

Hell to the No

What happened to the days when people used to call you to chat on the phone? Our technologically advanced world is slowly making the dating scene a place of passive safety where men and women ...

A Fireman in the Alley

Three girls walk into a bar on a Friday afternoon. The bar is called the Alley. From the outside it looks like an old fashioned kind of nautically swanky place along the coast. The building ...

Playing the Player

Playing someone or getting played has become a common phrase in our dating lives. It seems more and more often we hear people speaking of hating the player or the game, playing the game, or ...

Shout Out to Real Boobs

I know many people, men and women alike, love the fake ta tas. They are as reliable as Starbucks. They have that same familiar shape, feeling and symmetry that give Americans comfort in a neurosis ...

Fetish Much?

Dictionary.com says: Fetish: noun 3. Psychology. any object or nongenital part of the body that causes a habitual erotic response or fixation Who knew that Dreamstreet was the hotbed for a study on racial fetishes ...

The OB Hostel?

The night was young and it started at Southbeach. Fish tacos, a view of the pier and a couple of pitchers was the way to start a girl’s night out. But this was a friendship ...

Time Wasted at a Sub-par Bar

I left my favorite dives of Ocean beach for a night and spent the evening in Encinitas: We got out of the car in front of a large, yellow Mexican restaurant. The smell of carne ...

Schooled off Orchard Ave.

Side Note: I've been learning to surf for approximately 10 years and I'm still a beginner or just a bad surfer. Even if I cannot artfully catch a significant amount of waves nor gracefully ride ...

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