Four days in the woods with three guys – what a lady learned
What I learned after a Thursday-Sunday backpacking trip to North Manitou Island, Michigan, a place about six hours from Chicago with no cars allowed, the lone lady in a group Read more…
How a lovely relationship has closed my womb
It’s always been a given that I want to have kids. That is, until I came into a loving, healthy, fun, stable, invigorating, hilarious relationship. My interest in and experience Read more…
New Address: Saya & Boyfriend, Chicago, IL
There are two car households. Are there two refrigerator households? My food fills mine, and I’m just not sure there’s room for any beer and chicken fingers. Crossing fingers Boyfriend Read more…
Girl’s post on the internet has brought Boy & Girl to this
The First 18 Steps in a Relationship 1. December 2009 – Boy meets Girl, bearing a six-pack and wearing slippers, in her living room filled with thirty-nine other strangers, after Read more…
Pizza en route [shhhh!]
To thank Boyfriend’s parents for hosting us over the holidays, we sent something that each of them mentioned loving multiple times while we were there, a Giordano’s pizza. Of course, Read more…
On the prowl, but in a friendly way
One of the oft-discussed topics at the Minglers is how to meet people once you exit through the gates of dormitories, activity clubs, cafeterias, and homecoming dances and into the Read more…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year
It’s one of the best times of year for those on the “school year” calendar. Time to look for a 2011 planner! Or if you’re like me and incredibly stoked Read more…
Give all the angry people Dutch bikes
I have never had so much fun traveling to a meeting downtown, the bank, and the dentist. I smiled at Republicans. I whistled church hymns. I winked at men attached Read more…
It was a first date. He said he hated immigrants. There wasn’t a second date.
The various reactions I’ve gotten to yesterday’s post solidify my thoughts that dating is the universal’ist of all universal topics. We’ve all got steps to celebrate [When did he bring Read more…
Mine is an off-brand Crystal Light type of relationship; do I miss the days of champagne?
I was cleaning out my text message inbox the other day and came across a bunch of texts from January, from the beginning of relationship with Boyfriend. And all of Read more…