Archive for April, 2009

Topic: Dating News - The Tao of Pooh (Fort Myers Florida Weekly)

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

It was at a sleep-away camp in western Colorado, a place of log cabins and nightly campfires where rich campers complained about their lives back in Boston or New York. Plus, my best guy friend Bill was also going, and I nursed hopeful fantasies that some time in the wilderness might elevate us to more than friends. What I remember most about that time was the aura of cattiness that hung about the cabin, a hostile air teenage girls seem to seep from their pores. So often, it is romance that is fleeting in our lives — in the form of boyfriends and girlfriends and even marriage — and in the end it is our friends who offer the safest haven in this turbulent world. read more

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(Dating News) The mummy debates (Fort Myers Florida Weekly)

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

In her 2007 novel “The Yummy Mummy,” British author Polly Williams begins with a dramatic line. The online urban dictionary puts it succinctly, “An attractive older woman or an attractive mother. Hence, the rise of slummy mummies, that group of women perennially decked in sweat pants and stained t-shirts. She goes on to say, “Why is it that when so many women become mothers they turn into boring frumps with one-track conversational minds that rarely stray from the oh-so-fascinating subjects of nurseries, nappies and (lactating) nipples. read more

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What’s Around The Bases: Who is pleasing and who is teasing? (Sports Illustrated)- Dating News

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

And the hook is, this is a person who had her friend come over to give me her number almost a year ago — and never called back. Now, you give us the injury du season , a hip cartilage tear. Both have basically the same career minor-league batting average — . However, in Single-A Lansing, Snider had just a 71 percent contact rate, and that rate dropped to 68 percent last season with his time split between Advanced-A, Double-A and Triple-A. While there were rumors aplenty that Baltimore’s Chris Ray (RP, BAL) was lights out in spring training, and would thus supplant George Sherrill (RP, BAL), Ray has been abysmal, posting numbers that would be great if he were a quarterback, not a reliever. Albert Pujols (1B, STL) 7-for-26, 3 HR, 12 RBIs, . read more

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