love

51% off a HowAboutWe Membership

October 19, 2011

Daily Candy has a great deal going today: 51% off a HowAboutWe dating site membership! Mostly, I love HowAboutWe for its great dating blog, but if you want to try actually getting dates using the site, this is your chance to do it on the cheap! The site has a great concept. It takes the [...]

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Head over heels?

August 24, 2011

I am having an ongoing debate with a friend about the term “head over heels in love.” He argues that it is a completely reasonable phrase, whereas I think it makes no sense whatsoever (it should be “heels over head”). I will spare you the details of our argument, but in preparing for our final [...]

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Weekend Reading

March 3, 2011

aka “It’s Friday and you want to procrastinate at work.” It doesn’t matter if you’re single and searching, dating, married, or a spinster with a cat named Mr. Darcy, you need to read the How About We blog for your own amusement. Who wouldn’t want to miss gems such as: How to get out of [...]

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How about we…

November 28, 2010

A new dating site that was featured in the New York Times a few weeks ago is coming to Boston! How About We… sort of skips the searching through profiles and 187 dimensions of compatability nonsense and gets down to setting you up on dates. This week is How About We launch week in Boston [...]

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MBTA love story

November 5, 2010

This tweet from @juliacantor got me thinking. You could write a love story from this! Here’s what I’m thinking: Two lovers meet at Park Street. Unfortunately, she lives in Harvard Square and he lives in Brookline. They were separated by the Charles River and construction on the BU bridge. Unwilling to switch lines for romance, [...]

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Keeping it classy

August 18, 2010

I was minding my own business in the greeting card aisle at Target last night when I was approached by a gentleman who seemed to be interested in getting my phone number. I tried to keep the conversation as neutral as possible and then he finally says (in a creepy, deep, slow, Snoop Dogg-like voice), [...]

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How to catch a husband (Brazilian style)

August 5, 2010

Answer: PRAY. Leave it to Sara and me to find not one, but two churches where Brazilians traditionally go to pray for a spouse. The first church, the Igreja São Francisco da Penitência & Convento do Santo Antônio, is in the Centro district of Rio de Janeiro, just outside of the Carioca subway stop. Ironic [...]

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Lucky girl

March 29, 2010

“Personally, I think if a woman hasn’t met the right man by the time she’s 24, she may be lucky.” -Deborah Kerr {image CC BY-NC-SA 2.0}

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Easy question

February 12, 2010

Happy Valentine’s Day!

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How to land a boyfriend or girlfriend

December 10, 2009

Once upon a time, I had a roommate named Julia. Julia was seeing Mark, a nice boy she met through eHarmony. Mark and Julia were about to go on their 5th date, the “why don’t you come to my place and I will cook dinner and you can conveniently stay the night since it is [...]

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