After much encouragement to try an online dating service I decided to go the el cheapo route and signed up for Plenty of Fish. My inbox was immediately bombarded with messages, most consisting of one... Read more >>

After emailing a guy for six months (a long-distance “friendship.” We’re both in our mid-thirties, and both workaholics), we finally found the time to meet up. I was in his... Read more >>

Miguel had been a Golden Gloves middleweight champion about five years earlier. I met him when he was working for a moving company. He passed me several times in the hall of the apartment house I... Read more >>

Too short? Too blond? Too into jam bands? NEXT! Okay, so you would probably be a little gentler about how you reject someone, but when it comes to picking a mate, everyone has at least one... Join this chit chat >>

Okay, so being single, I signed up for some kind of phone dating service (in the days before the internet was so inundated with dating Web sites), and lo and behold—I MET SOMEONE! He... Read more >>

A few weeks ago, I was at a museum, enjoying a few hours of solitary cultural contemplation, when out of the corner of my eye, I saw an interruption approaching. He was a mustachioed man in his late... Read more >>

I was once set up by a friend of mine with a guy he worked with. We talked a couple times, and he seemed cool enough. He was funny. I am a sucker for funny guys. Anyway, we decided to actually go on a... Read more >>

We met online, chatted for about two months, and then got together for drinks. That date went really well: we spent three hours talking, laughing, and discovering we both had similar interests. But he... Read more >>

I’m a fan of online dating, mostly because its convenience but also because the dating pool in my town is down to a small puddle. I met one guy on a site that I had a connection with,... Read more >>