on the fly relationships 

Twitterpated Season – The Hook-up Mating Dance

  “Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in the springtime. You begin to get weak in the knees. Your head’s in a whirl. And then you feel light as a feather, and before you know it, you’re walking on air. And then you know what? You’re knocked for a loop, and you completely lose your head!” ~Bambi – Walt Disney Company     Stealing from the movie Bambi, one of my best friends and I call the end of winter and the tender beginning of spring, Twitterpated Season.   During this un-official…

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Valentine's Day Laura Bock writer musings on the fly relationships 

Love and Valentine’s Day

This has not started out as being the best Valentine’s Day I’ve ever had – it’s also not the worst – so I am thankful for that. I did, however, break out in tears on my way into work today; sadly I cannot blame it on PMS, but I can blame it on stress. Buried deep underneath all of my badass and hard shell casing, there is a hopeless romantic slowly suffocating from lack of sensual human contact. Sure, I have sex, at least on an irregular basis, but sex…

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life relationships 

Looking for Love in the 90’s – Life Lesson #458

“SWF seeks SWM for LTR – must love alternative music” Back in 1993, I used to check out the personal ads in the back of the Cleveland Free Times and decided one day to give it a try. After all, what did I have to lose? Unfortunately, in those days I didn’t have the confidence, attitude and passion for life that I now possess – also, I was not upfront in my ad concerning my physical appearance. In my head I thought, “what good looking guy would want to respond…

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