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My stocking cap is pulled it low over my eyes as I drive in the drizzling darkness to Macdonald’s. Macdonald’s…the illuminated building sparkles like a Disney castle next to a…

A proverbial phone conversation in a day in the life of my BFF and I:  Rosco: Hey Googley  Me: Hey Boobley. Whatcha doin’? Rosco: I’m trying on shades at Fred…

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.  Be curious, not judgmental.  In the faces of men and women, I see God -Walt…

  Here is a secret about me. I have been a songwriter ever since I was 15, sitting in a field of daisies with my guitar and my best friend…

Hosting Christmas dinner felt like a right of passage into adulthood, of sorts. I was a home-owner now. With this title came a mortgage, an electric bill that was almost…

One auspicious morning in 1912, two female ministers knocked wearily on the door of a ramshackle farmhouse. My great-grandfather answered. Two 4-year-old girls with messy blond hair (my grandmother and…

When I get a UTI, I get the kind with extra-strong, radioactive strands of bacteria that would likely survive nuclear war. If the Russians or the Koreans or the Martians…

Most of my single friends of both genders are constantly bemoaning their misadventures when it comes to navigating the treacherous online dating world. ….”We text for two weeks, then she…

Me last night at not my proudest moment: My two dinner guests have just left and my house is feeling lonely. I apparently forget what year it is and text…

Two years ago I ended a 10-year long relationship then embarked on a “Rumspringa” back into the dating world. This entailed a quick succession of dreamy-eyed musicians – none of…

You’re 14, galavanting through “fields of gold” – a Neil Young-inspired dreamscape. You’re holding hands with that boy you had a crush on in middle school, the one who always…

So, I’ve been on a dating app embargo for the last year, but my gal friend encouraged me to join Bumble with her. Bumble seemed relatively benign in the world…

When my sister and I pose for a selfie, I look like a vampire standing next to a Hawaiian hoola dancer. I am glow-in-the-dark and allergic to the sun, and…

They say that the average American watches 2.5 hours of TV per day. This is about the equivalent of how long I am on the phone with my ex, Roscoe…

You know that text that your girlfriend wrestles you to the ground over and doesn’t let you send to the guy who you wrote it to? This is in most…