Amanda cut my hair the other day at
Carefree Haircutting on 2nd Street in Belmont Shore. You can hardly tell. That’s why I go to her. And I like her personality. I’m not a salon girl. My salon history has been one of serial monogamy. I tend to stick with a person and place for a […]

A friend spotted this bumper sticker on a plumber’s truck today. And it really does sum it up, don’t you think? My friend and I discussed its meaning at some length. We both agreed…Taken literally, the sense of smell IS so important in the context of human relationships. People emit odors, naturally, and unnaturally. And […]

Coming soon to a light post, freeway onramp, busy intersection, telephone pole near you — flirtysomething’s first guerrilla marketing campaign. I’m very excited to have connected with a brilliant marketer who believes in the potential of our brand. He’s an old hand at helping dating sites get the message out, having worked with established companies […]

What Not to Write to Someone You Don’t Even Know
You’re looking for a companion, a friend, a lover, a date, a partner…call it what you will. You’re on flirtysomething because you’re single but not miserably or stubbornly so. You have a life. You have plenty to do. Sometimes you’re bored or lonely, sure, but so […]

You’re a good person. Not perfect. But, you work hard, try to do the right thing, take reasonably good care of yourself, and abide by most of the laws, rules and conventions of polite society. Yet, when it comes to online dating, your reputation might suffer, if anyone knew. Thank goodness what happens on Match.com […]

How crass have homo sapiens become? Read about a recent speed dating event featuring men with big wallets and women with big attributes of the gold digger kind. Decide for yourself. http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2007/02/natural-selection-1.php

I’ve never attended a speed dating event but suppose their popularity speaks for their utility. You get to test the chemistry with not one […]

Match is trying hard to be Web 2.0. The Match “Stars” ad campaign, a case in point. Match hires 25 good looking people, actors I’m guessing, to become or represent (hard to tell which) Match.com members. They are the “real people” in the TV ads with the “It’s Okay to Look” tagline. Of course […]

Want to know why you’re not getting very much bang out of your online dating buck, so to speak? It’s probably due to one of the following:
1. No picture; or a lousy picture. Anyone can take a decent photo. You don’t have to be Angelina or Brad and appeal to all of humanity. You’re only […]

Let’s face it. Sometimes you don’t know whether there’s chemistry on the first date, or maybe little red flags went up when he referred to a certain demographic as “those people”, or when he called his mother a narcissist. So you’re not sure about whether to book a second date. Three tips about second […]

Hank L., a great friend to many and patriarch of a long-standing Belmont Shore
family, passed away a couple of weeks ago at 86. Hank’s life was rich with stories, and his memorial service was a storytelling session of the most sublime kind. Friends and family took turns at the mic and told impromptu stories of […]