A tasty new name for the Purple People Bridge Unlike most of my friends who are single now, I really don't mind being single at most times. I have tons of female friends for social interactions wit
Shop 'Til You Drop I hate those moments when I question my own manliness. I had one of those moments when Jen called me up Saturday to see if I wanted to go with her to the Pottery Barn Outlet st
A Thin Line Between Lovers and Friends When a guy and girl are best friends and hang out nearly every night they're free, sooner or later one of them begins to question whether or not to take the
Tall Stacks: Five Days of Peace, Love and Understanding I attended a couple of days of Tall Stacks last week with the intention of taking photos of some of the acts that performed and maybe so
There Are Some Things Money Can't Buy At about 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, I came up with a new commercial for MasterCard. Parking in downtown Cincinnati for dinner: 25 cents. Crappy service from wait
Why Can't We Be Friends? It somehow seems noble to end a relationship with the "let's be friends" statement. Certainly it's preferable to saying mean and hateful things that, while describing fee
Good Sports Two weeks after ending a nearly three-year relationship, I found myself so exhausted of reliving the experience from having to tell all my friends the story that I was raring to break
Open Up and Say Ahhh Life carries us along with its routines and minutiae. The habits of being together were illuminated for me this week as I unwittingly exposed myself to a film and a play that
Pipe Dreams During dinner with Cathy and our mutual friends Keith and Sue at Boswell Alley in Northside on Friday, the girls and I decided to go on the Downtown Tour of Living on Sunday. Keith de
What a Girl Wants Wedding bells traditionally have been rung in the spring -- remember the saying about there's nothing like a June bride -- but September appears to be gaining popularity for wed
Where There's Smoke, There's Fireworks I haven't been down on the river for the WEBN Labor Day Fireworks for nearly 10 years. The last time I went, I had so much fun that I decided there would be
Double the Trouble All attempts to jumpstart my personal life appear to be working. It's amazing to me that new life has appeared on the horizon. It appears that the stars are in my favor to illu
A Blonde, a Brunette and a Banana The humidity, heat and lack of air-conditioning on Saturday afternoon had me sprawled out on my couch in the most loose-fitting pair of shorts and tank top I own
The Metrosexual Man Variety makes the world go round, or so it seems. Goodness knows it's a relief when you're out with girlfriends and everyone has different taste in men. How horrible it would
Saturday afternoon I found myself in the position to dive into a grocery store for a quickie appetizer to take to my friends' place, as there was neither time nor energy to go home and make it from