My friend, who used to be a writing professor and has published one book has ben harping on me for years to write a book. First, he encouraged me to write a book about sales, since I had published 100 posts for Inside Sales Dude. I had no interest in writing a book. After all,…
Joie de vivre
In one of my dating apps, I am promoted to enter the “Most Important Thing I Want In A Woman”. Just one? At first, I had a laundry list of attributes. Then I narrowed this down to a paragraph description. I spoke about love, nature, commitment, dogs, fitness and passion. Today, I deleted it and…
Blue Collar Man
A few years ago, my stepson pulled up to my house with a flat tire on a Friday night. He was 20 miles from home and didn’t have a spare tire. I unsuccessfully searched online to find a tire place that was open. Then I said, “Let’s throw your tire in my trunk and take…
Bluebirds
When I moved into my home, the seller left me a note saying that they had never used any pesticides or poisons in the yard for the 20 years they owned the home. They wrote that there were bunnies who would visit to munch on the clover and the bluebirds would nest in the birdhouse…
Sampler Platter
When I am learning something completely new, I like to approach it the way I would a salad buffet back in my “eat anything” days: I try a little of everything first. Then I go back for seconds only for what I like. Getting a broad initial exposure and then applying discernment to narrow my…
Death Of A Special Woman
I was saddened to learn that a woman who once worked for me died in December 2021. Based on the public obituary notice, I suspect she died from breast cancer. I knew she had two daughters and estimated that one was now in college and the other in high school. I sent them the following…
Doing The Niggling Thing
Two women I dated this past month lived in a town 30 miles way from me. With traffic, that means every time I visited them, I’d be commuting for at least 2 hours and 60 miles road-trip. The Phone Caller was one of them. I really felt a connection with her. We had several good…
Funhouse mirrors, Photoshop and Winning Personalities
This past weekend I on two disappointing first dates. I guess I should have known better and been more skeptical, but I was not. I was fooled twice by edited photos and misleading profiles. I met both women on Bumble. Each had posted several attractive headshot photographs. Only one had a full body shot, that…
Too Many First Dates
In the past 3 months, I’ve gone on dates with 10 different women. Six times, we decided not to go on a 2nd date. Three times, we’ve gone multiple dates before deciding we weren’t a good match. As of today, I have a second date coming up this week with The Phone Caller (TPC). With…
I Don’t Do Casual
I stopped dating someone who I really liked a few weeks ago because she made it clear that she was only interested in casual, non-committed dating. When we had begun dating, I thought she meant that she wouldn’t commit to a monogamous relationship with me until she got to know me better. But that’s not…