When an ex finds your blog

After obsessing about whether to meet the ex for coffee — and trying to heed your warnings — I went.
Seeing Adam (no, not his real name) after so many years caught me off guard.
Of course, I thought he’d still be good looking, but why the heck was I so buzzed? (Was he better looking than [...]

An ex is calling, Part III

Before meeting Adam, the ex who has been calling, I got a poem in my Inbox.
I subscribe to Writer’s Almanac (highly recommended!), so I get a poem every morning. This one, by David Allen Sullivan, had a line that seemed like an eery warning:
“A.A.’ers talk about the blinding glare of the obvious: Objects in the [...]

An ex is calling, Part II

Recently, I asked for your advice about an ex who was calling (thanks to all of you!)
Some of you pointed out the fact that this guy is Jewish and Yom Kippur was coming up — a time when Jews around the world ask for forgiveness.
Others said that his conversation sounded right out of Alcoholics Anonymous.
And [...]

An ex is calling. Advice?

An ex-boyfriend emailed me this week, after six years of almost no contact. Well, he wasn’t really even a boyfriend.
If you read my book, you might remember Adam. He’s the hot Jewish single dad who works in law enforcement.
In 2002, I’d seen him around the neighborhood. He rode a motorcycle. He was bald. I found [...]

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is engaged in a great struggle.”

Thanks to my former colleague, Dan Pine, for letting me borrow this brilliant line:

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is engaged in a great struggle.”
While I’m sure that Dan would love to take credit for the quote, it actually came from the writings of Philo of Alexandria, the renowned Hellenistic philosopher who lived 2,000 years [...]