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 dramatic melancholy when I told …

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 thought it was the polite …

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 of making the juice so …

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 in its raw form. This …

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 headaches from my caffeine withdrawls, …

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. My most recent choice has …

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 next day," my eyes popped …

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 others flitted on and off …

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 the house, I have nothing …

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 mundanity that dictates the Monday …

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. This piece is in reaction …

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 the lights of the city …

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 hangs off the corner of …

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 getting played by the player. …

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 driven society. They may have …

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 and the men who love …

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 first date. We were friends …

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 asada, fried tortillas and cheese …

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 the faces once I paddle …