My son has a favorite cake. It’s white with white buttercream, nothing special. And yet, because he is so picky, it took us years to...

The other day, as summer settled into full swing, my teenaged child asked me to help them create a pair of wings to wear while...

The other night I brought my 14 year old to see Birds Of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn, the newest DC comic...

I pay strangers to torture me.  I invite them into my home.  I open the door with a smile and invite them in, and I bring them downstairs...

We are not rule breakers, my cousin says. We are not, she and I.  And we huddle together at family gatherings and joke about our defect....

When I was a child, I had two best friends, one boy best friend and one girl best friend and because they were in different categories of...

In two months time we progressed from brisk walks to romantic dinners to household errands.  I noticed how impossibly smooth her legs...

So I was cruising along sometimes having good romantic experiences, and sometimes engaging in dates that made me squirm, but managing to...

The (hopefully) last Nor’easter or the season is upon us, and I’m at the point of the winter that I’ve gotten pretty cocky about being...

The first moment I saw this woman I smiled wide and thought, Pitter Patter. On a lark we decided to mall walk like old women. We circled...

Last week the BFI released their list of the “30 Best LGBT Films of All Time.” I will be watching them through the year and reviewing...

I went in to our date thinking I might want to fuck this woman.  She worked with her hands, which I thought might be a plus. But then we...

Last night my friend and I were at a restaurant sitting at a bar, eating a white pizza and tasting various whiskeys so that I could...

I dated this man in a whirlwind. We texted obsessively about music and books and our sexual boundaries for three days before meeting up...

In the spirit of full disclosure, I feel compelled to add this incident to my recent list of failures: Yesterday morning, I played “Crazy...

That’s The Way the Graham Cracker Crumbles In the course of our pre-date conversations I had somehow promised to bat my eye lashes at...

Pick Your Poison I’d sworn off brilliant men and their very particular academia-equals-intelligence biases, but this man’s banter was...

We’d talked about going to a drive in movie, but it was too cold.  This woman erected a tent in her living room and dragged the TV in. ...

I planned a date with a woman a week in advance.  She texted me everyday to say hello and the first day I thought, “How sweet,” “She’s...