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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]