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For some reason the ladies of the night swarm to me, much like cult members of some space invader Jesus sect. Maybe they smell my reticence like a perfume and can’t resist approach. I hear cats have that same sense of things.
Maybe though it’s a symptom of their own desperation, not mine. I’m [...]

At 6 a.m. in Clackamas, steps from the biggest mall in Oregon, there is only one thing open. Starbucks. Oh sure, the neighborhood seems promising. There is a Target, Payless Shoes and every chain restaurant under the sun within spitting distance of the hotel. But with the sunrise hours away (a brisk [...]

Is it pretentious to have a requirement for my friends that they be able to bring a smile to my face?  I was thinking about this over the weekend as I was aggravated with a particular friend of mine who seemed a bit standoffish (no names now, don’t be tacky!) Quite inexplicably, I assure you.
Okay, [...]

…but Andrew beat me to the punch.
I didn’t watch baseball for years. In fact, I think the last time I watched baseball, other than one or two games at the park when a friend had an extra ticket, was the ‘86 World Series. But no need to go into that. In 2003, [...]

My usual Friday B.S. column was bumped this week for this love note to Jason Varitek, who it was announced filed for divorce from his wife Karen within the last few weeks. Jason Varitek is quite simply the hottest catcher alive, and no, I only wish that was a veiled gay reference.
If [...]

I surfed my way to the newest trend in online dating, the matchmaker. With the traditional online dating sites all but dead in the water (the pool so diluted with outdated and unlikely profiles and the costs of memberships disturbingly out of sync with the features being offered) the new movement afoot is to produce [...]