Give the lady what she wants, if she even knows
She came through the crowd in a half turned way that happens in busy bars, one arm on the bar and the other pointing off into…
Agreeing to disagree may be the key to relationships
“I’ll have a red wine,” she said. “And I’ll have a white wine,” he said.
A toast to getting in the mood
Valentine’s Day is this Sunday and with it comes a lot of heightened expectations. Along with overpriced flowers, heart-shaped chocolates and prix-fixe dinners comes the real…
Super Bowl party challenge was a bloody mess
“Do you know how to make a bloody Mary?” he asked. I still remember the question. In retrospect I should have said no, but I was…
Discontent isn’t a good look on a date
“Now is the winter of our discontent,” once wrote a man famous for his dysfunctional relationships. Well, not his, really, but rather the relationships of his…
Your crap is your own business
It could not have been a more beautiful day. The recent rain had washed the world clean and now the sun was shining brightly on this…
Tequila Sunrise legend finally gets his due
A friend who works in the film business once said, “Being on a film set is just standing around watching other people standing around.” And that…
Can we blame it all on Starbucks?
“Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one,” wrote philosopher Elbert Hubbard, known as much for…
A toast to getting in the mood
Valentine’s Day is this Sunday and with it comes a lot of heightened expectations. Along with overpriced flowers, heart-shaped chocolates and prix-fixe dinners comes the real…
It takes more than one word to avoid being a rube
“Manhattan?” she asked, presumably to me even though there was little indication of that. The one-word question — the very bane of the service person’s existence.…