How to win at dating
Dating. It’s the best. It’s the worst. It makes you feel alive. It makes you feel like crap. I can’t get enough of it. Conversations about deal breakers, pet-peeves, activities, turn Read more…
The weight of your words and actions
One of my mostest favoritest aspects of my job what I do [it feels weird to write ‘my job’; that phrase seems so NOT laughter, adventure, and glue sticks] are the Read more…
Saya? Saya??? Saya????
I’ve always prided myself on leading an active life, filled with classes [improv, guitar, salsa, yoga, writing] and activities [Pecha Kucha, Second Story, Clandestino, Second Friday Art Walks, Chicago Cares, Read more…
You’re… welcome?
I’ve been having weird encounters with “Thank you’s” recently. Weird meaning I don’t know how to react and that I feel odd accepting the Thank You. When I went to Read more…
Media coverage for my baby
Fun to track what others say about the Minglers, with the various types of media outlets out there. Facebook Status Updates – Spending the evening with a room full of Read more…
40 strangers + adorable kids and giving adults + 37 strangers = ahhhh.
What a weekend! Friday night I had the biggest Mingler to date, with forty guests. Some newbies, some repeaters, all interesting and with such different backgrounds! They heard about the Read more…
I have me some edumacated friends
At first glance, you might think the quote below is from some Norwegian psychoanalyst in a white coat, thick glasses and with a hard to pronounce last name. But it’s Read more…
Being on this side of the camera sucks
A film crew – a producer, a reporter, two lighting guys, a cameraman, an intern, the cameraman’s prom date, the reporter’s arch-nemesis, the intern’s stunt double, and a partridge in Read more…
How to have a hangover without drinking a sip of alcohol
Friday night, I hosted the family to celebrate Fall birthdays. I gave my cousin a new board game to in hopes that it’d replace the worst game in the world, Read more…
Any waifish dictionary-lovers out there?
Inquiry if I offer matchmaking services and request in my inbox this AM from a male guest of last night’s Mingler – “keep a look out for a petite, very Read more…