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Set, Spike, Kiss
I\’ll never play the violin in high heels again. OK, I\’ll be back in sticks in six weeks, and I never played the fiddle. But I did play an important game of volleyball.
License to Date
When I went to the JDate Web site to sign up, I discovered that they had my profile from four years ago. For my preferences, I had checked single (never married), separated, divorced and widowed. But I\’m older (48) and wiser now and \”unchecked\” single and separated. Such men do not carry a \”license to date.\” Although our mothers wanted us to \”marry Jewish,\” they had the wisdom to warn us that any Jewish man over 40 who has never been married is not \”marriage material.\”
Phillip was 49 and never married, but told me, \”There were women who wanted to marry me, who I didn\’t want to marry, and there were women I wanted to marry, who didn\’t want to marry me.\”
Westward Ho
When I accepted a job to transfer from New York City to Los Angeles, I figured October would be the ideal month to move. Just as bone-chilling winds began sweeping the East Coast, I\’d be basking in year-round sunshine on the other side of the country.
Don’t Hate Me ‘Cuz I’m Happy
If you\’re anything like me — and for the love of God, I hope you\’re not –you\’ve found dating in Los Angeles to be nonstop inferno of disappointment, frustration, anguish, horror, tedium and depression.
And those are the dates that work out fairly well. It\’s not hard to understand why some battle-scarred veterans of the singles scene have completely sworn off dating, substituting other, nondating activities in life, whatever those could possibly be. I understand jogging may be one of them.
Full Disclosure
Okay, full disclosure about … full disclosure: I write emotionally revealing memoirs, but won\’t wear see-through blouses. Which is to say, I\’m not the type of person who posts naked pictures of herself on the Web. But when a women\’s magazine asked me to write about joining an \”erotic amateur photo site,\” I was intrigued. Let me repeat: they asked me, a petite Jewish woman who bears no resemblance to the cast of \”Friends,\” to publicly display my body.
Red Flag From Cupid
Not very romantic? I was stunned. Did I miss something here? Is it our anniversary? It\’s our first meeting, for crying out loud!
The Set Up
For some reason, it\’s rare that anyone sets me up. You would think being a thin, employed, Jewish heterosexual with a full head of hair, long eyelashes and a great sense of humor would be a gimmie.
Good Jew, Bad Jew
There are certain levels of \”Jewishness\” — and I am not talking about Reform vs. Orthodox.
Date of Atonement
At this Sept. 11 anniversary, we as a community are forced to remember where we were one year ago, when the world as we knew it turned upside down, and stayed that way.
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