The first bit of best advice for women going on a blind date is to follow your basic instincts of observation and self-protection. After that, everything should make for an enjoyable occasion. To start, there’s the playing field. The internet…
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This title could cause this old Navy guy to reach way down in the mud for humor of the rawest kind. However, as a father of young adults who are now active participants in the dating game, I’ll restrain myself…
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With regular face-to-face dating, you may have hours and days to make an impression on your intended first-date experience. In fact, if it is a blind date and you’ve agreed to meet somewhere, you will even have the option …….
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There are several thousand commercial matchmakers in the US who advertise in periodicals and on the Internet. About 40 of them belong to the Matchmaking Institute, which in addition to providing matchmaking services, offers information about the business and monitors…
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Any internet dating service, even the most well-known, could have potential dangers for the unwise. Therefore, those considering using this method to meet new people should practice common sense. Here are some ways to protect yourself when you’re about to…
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November 3, 2015 Marriage and Divorce
When asked why he climbed Mount Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary famously said, “Because it is there.” A wise-guy answer, to be sure, but it may also apply to women who stray from the marital bed today. For another analogy applicable…
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The decision, if there must be one, should be to choose the most reliable, honest adult child to be the executor of your estate. A better approach would be to prepare all assets and liabilities of your entire estate into…
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I don’t ever remember being rejected during or after a blind date. I’m sure it happened, but maybe my guy brain and ego just refuse to accept it. I do remember having many one-only blind dates, where as the typical…
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October 22, 2015 Crisis Support
When you get old and retire, you always take with you the memories of people who’ve touched your life and some of the moments you’ve shared. Dealing with grief of associates started very early, and several are still very clear…
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On first thought, for some clueless guys, just showing up for their first dates can ruin the event. They arrive with draggy clothes, wild hair, goofy face and body piercing, tattoos up the kazoos, boozy/druggy and hostile attitude. Those kinds…
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If you don’t want to stay single, mingle, baby, mingle! How in the hell can you end your singleness by sitting on your butt every night watching those stupid non-talent talent shows or reruns of “I Love Lucy”? Get dressed,…
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Of course, government has no right to ban any kind of clothing people choose to wear … or not. Government should clean up its own act before imposing such rules on the rest of us. Even at the highest levels,…
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Seniors should practice similar self-protective routines as people of any age should do when they’re dating, especially in these days of online and other instant sources of making new acquaintances. Common sense is always a great attribute, and in the…
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As a teenager and 20-something guy, I believed friendship and dating could never go together. I always boasted that if I wanted to take a friend on a date, I’d go out with the guys. Of course, it was a…
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Since the dawn of history, it has been traditional for the man of the family to leave home frequently to go exploring, hunting or to do battle, while his wife must cope as best she can. John Milton’s classic poem,…
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Forgive me if I’m forced to give a dirty old man answer to the question: they’re most attractive without clothes on. Seriously, everyone is most presentable when he or she creates the best possible image of a young, well-groomed, healthy,…
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Hey, look in the mirror! You’re a proud, healthy teen, just entering the prime of your life. You should have everything to look forward to in adventures, relationships and experiences. Your most precious asset is your freedom. Maybe in four…
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September 30, 2015 Crisis Support
There is no absolutely correct answer to this question. Each case, especially at the end of a very old patient’s life, has to be decided by the family and/or the patient. My wife and I, now in our 80s, have…
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September 28, 2015 Friends and Peers
Friendship and love are just words in the English dictionary, and they can have a limitless number of meanings. When Cole Porter wrote, “I Love Paris”, did he mean he enjoyed the city or had sensual feelings for a special…
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HUMOR: This essay just screams for some very explicit physical descriptions. However, although it won’t be easy, I’ll keep it squeaky clean. Here are my top five easy pieces … I mean steps … to make a girl love you….
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September 23, 2015 Friends and Peers
Everybody who writes about platonic love starts off with the dictionary description, something about a relationship that doesn’t involve physical relations. I guess that’s true enough, but in my very long lifetime of experience in such matters, the way we…
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September 22, 2015 Friends and Peers
If its inspirational meaning you want, I must start my essay with my favorite quote. It is the silliest and most meaningless of the ten I’ll list, and maybe of all time. But, forgive me, it is also my personal…
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A man’s sexual attraction to a woman is the source of many jokes and entertainment humor, but there’s a serious biological explanation for it. It’s a biologically natural happening, and is absolutely necessary for the preservation of the species. Male…
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September 19, 2015 Friends and Peers
This title evokes the nasty old joke, with the word “make” having the wink, wink bedroom meaning: it takes me awhile to make a friend, but in a dimly-lit bar, just a few minutes to make an enemy. Actually, unlike…
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September 18, 2015 Friends and Peers
The history books and media are full of quotes about terrorism, war, crime, religious hatred, murder and all the other terrible things humans do to other humans. Fortunately, once in awhile a jewel shines out from all the muck, and…
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September 17, 2015 Friends and Peers
My favorite movies about friendship both starred Art Carney. He’s remembered mostly today as the idiotic sewer-worker sidekick of Jackie Gleason the early TV series, “The Honeymooners.” However, Carney was a perceptive, versatile actor who could play tragedy well enough…
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Cohabitation sounds so clinical. Let’s just call it what it is: two unmarried people who choose to live together. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with that kind of mutually-agreeable arrangement today. It can be advantageous both emotionally and financially, but…
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How does anyone describe addiction to love? Is it the Romeo and Juliet idealized longing for fulfillment? Or are we talking about today’s frantic bed-hoppers who can never be cured of the affliction by settling down with one partner? Despite…
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To some moralists, a friends with benefits relationship is just another description of the practice of casual, sleep-around sex. It’s a convenient way,or an excuse, to justify what may be considered morally wrong in some social circles. That said, as…
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I compare seven progressive stages of romance to Shakespeare’s seven ages of man. His beginning discourse is very appropriate for contemporary love affairs: All the world’s a stage,And all the men and women merely players,They have their exits and entrances,And…
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