I expected to find the dating service in a back alley. Instead, the crisp, uncluttered offices nestled inside a gleaming business tower. But those two nagging questions remained: WHAT am I doing here, and how do I log it on my expense report? It started a few days earlier as I … [Read more...]

We have yet to discover the cure for the common cold -- but that doesn't stop us from spouting off enough home remedies to make the sufferer truly sick. I'd barely started coughing a couple days ago when friends started insisting I drink tea laced with honey, suck zinc, rub … [Read more...]

I hadn’t even barely swallowed my last Christmas cookie or recovered from my New Year’s hangover and they appeared like Montezuma’s revenge. Thin, leering spokespeople from Waist Watchers, Seattle Glutton, LA Flab Loss and No Pain No Gain Systems emerged from out of now here like … [Read more...]

Back in my college days, I dated an optometry student for a short period. I don't remember a whole lot about him, other than he loved to interpret Beatle songs and check my eyes. That's all we ever did. I would meet him at the Optometry School and we would escape to an … [Read more...]

New Year’s Resolutions are awful. They basically set you up for failure. I remember my parents ‘giving up smoking’ every January 1. After about three days, the six of us kids would literally be begging to walk down to the corner store to buy their nicotine-starved cranky selves … [Read more...]