Two weeks ago a friend of mine wanted to pick my brain regarding entering the online dating world after being married for twelve years and divorced for two. Looking like a wide eyed doe, she listened intently while I offered the short version of what she might expect in the early stages of the process. I stated the possibility of immediate success and bliss and the probability of exactly the opposite. She asked how difficult it had been to for me to compile my profile. I didn

The 2nd in a series of my South Pasadena Review (newspaper) column... The first order of business of online dating is choosing a site. Your initial instinct might be to think “how difficult could this be?” Please squash that belief before it develops into anything concrete. I sat down one afternoon (which turned into a week) determined to get a handle on dating websites so I could make an educated choice as to which was most suited to me. I don't want to send you running into

Article for Column (on dating) in South Pasadena Review - March 17, 2016: You have just turned 30 or 40 or 50. In Los Angeles few people admit to being older than that. You have decided you want a boyfriend or girlfriend or whatever. You briefly entertain the notion of on line dating and decide it is probably preferable to die alone. After being solitary for whatever period of time feels inordinately excessive, you revisit the idea of death versus dating, weighing out the “pr