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We finally connected late Friday afternoon. He was reading Tractor-Trailer Trucker: A Powerful Truck Book , by Joyce Slayton Mitchell, yet wanted to meet at Tinker’s Dam on Sunday for their all-out barbecue. I was seldom caught off guard by some...
Owen sent me a note that made it obvious he was a no-nonsense guy. It said he had been given my contact information by someone who knew me, and our go-between was a former boss of mine. Even though that particular boss had canned me, I continued reading...
A few housemates were up when I walked into the blue mansion and they were all over me like acne on a prepubescent boy. I told them I learned something that night. “I highly recommend an ‘eating with your hands’ first date. It’s...
A cutie named Josh phoned and wanted to connect. We were set up through the son of a family I helped arrange services for. His pal, Ben’s mother had just passed, so Ben came to the funeral home several times to firm up the details. We were able...
Finally! After twenty dates, I was finally having a date outside, to go biking in San Francisco. I guessed (to myself and all my friends) that this might be Tripper’s “first date” test. He was way into the sport of biking and it made...
Two weeks had gone by and I had racked up an unimpressive slew of meetings. My dad wanted to hear about my progress but I wasn’t sure if he’d either enjoy my sagas, or pity his single daughter. I had shared some of my more mild dates with...
The Caravan. No windows . I understand why people like that in a bar, but it wasn’t a place for me, primarily because it smelled like puke, but also because there were always way too many people drinking themselves into oblivion at all hours of...
I was talking with Tim who approached me a few minutes earlier. I was still at Katie Bloom’s, and he saw me there with my "boyfriend," and wanted to know where he went. I told Tim that my "boyfriend" was a blind date. I worked...
It was a rainy Saturday evening and I had worked all day at the cemetery, but was able to gather the energy to slip into my date outfit for yet another adventure for a guy reading The DaVinci Code. This guy was a guy’s guy , someone who I guessed...
I like to refer to Skip as the "triple date": it was me, him, and his cell phone. Look, we all have cell phones. I'm in a profession where I am always on call or at least I need to be reachable, so I understand it and accept it. My beef...
Dating fatigue had officially set in. It was New Year’s Day, and the party I’d attended the night before at the Blue Pheasant was seriously lugubrious . It felt sad walking into the place and seeing a multitude of men and women who looked...
Rusty built grain silos in the Central California Valley. He worked in the East Bay, but happily commuted ninety minutes one way to work because he could listen to his Harry Potter books on tape. He was really riveted by the second installment and spent...
I got in about three AM from a first call, which is shop talk for picking up a deceased loved one and bringing them into the care of the funeral home. I e-mailed Christie just before I turned off my light. I really wanted to know where my Clint Eastwood...
Blind dating. Yeah, tell me about it. Not the most glamourous way to spend an evening. Some of my blind dates were so fascinated why I was with them on a blind date. And they had to let me know. Yes, I was willing to be set up on a blind date. Over and...
I met up later with Gunner, a man fresh from the grasp of the military who was a retired Army reconnaissance officer. He wanted to try out a local brewery located in the back of an old-school strip mall called The Pruneyard. Just as we toasted and began...
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