By Jennifer Kelton That’s why he didn’t call. One week after avoiding two of my favorite local happy hour spots, I’m sitting at one of them, drinking a $4 happy hour draught, surrounded by dark mahogany. It’s the local Irish Pub. I’m on a first-name basis with the bartenders, here. I’m sitting on my bar [...]

By Jennifer Kelton and By Jessica Downey In walks Jennifer Kelton and Jessica Downey two modern day Lois Lane’s who are unabashedly hitting the pavement in their bustling hometowns of Los Angeles and Chicago. Armed with sharpened pencils and crisp white lined note pads, asking a total of 50 unsuspecting strangers of all ages, genders [...]

By Jennifer Kelton It was 2:44 A.M. when, for the third night in a row, I woke up with beyond extreme pain (the kind I would not wish on my worst enemy) from a root canal that I had just had days before. As I shuffled, with my bed head hair, blurry eyes and freshly [...]

By Lauren Indvik at Mashable.com Ever had such a bad date that venting to your friends just wasn’t satisfying enough? Well, you might want to check out BadOnlineDates.com. The world of online dating is exciting, ridiculous, comical and sometimes depressing. No matter how carefully you screen your dates, veterans know that you’re going to eventually [...]

BadOnlineDates.com Launches an iPhone App, Giving Online Daters the Virtual Wingman They Need. (I-Newswire) May 12, 2010 – Los Angeles, CA – May 12th 2010. BadOnlineDates.com introduces the BadOnlinedates iPhone App; your virtual wingman. And yes. There is an App for that! Even been on date that was so tragic, so awkward, and so criminally [...]

By Jennifer Kelton It’s estimated about 60 percent of men and 40 percent of women will have an affair at some point in their marriage. Womensavers.com (Hello, Ashleymadison.com) While it’s extremely difficult to get the precise numbers, I can say that unfortunately, unknowingly, and very much to my Brazilian waxed vaginal dismay I became part [...]

By Jennifer Kelton Since I’m on the subject of the good old days… Penis… I have to admit, other than being flashed online via Skype, it’s been about five months since I’ve seen one in the flesh. It was back in December of 2009 and I met him at an English pub that’s close to [...]

By Jennifer Kelton As I write this, the Internet is approximately only 27 years, 2 months, 2 weeks, 2 days, 12 hours, and 31 minutes old. That’s younger than some of the guys I’ve dated. However the human race goes back hundreds of thousands of years. So, I suppose certain aspects of the male mind [...]

Online sites allow lovelorn to commiserate over bad dates, get dating advice By Kathleen Hom Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, March 14, 2010 After eight years of trying to find Mr. Right, 26-year-old Irene Vivenzio of Waldorf is done with online dating. She thought lengthy online questionnaires that required paragraph-long answers, weeks of exchanging e-mails [...]

Room #104 and Neighbor Damon – Part 7 His persistence makes me uncomfortable, but no matter how curt or distant I am, he never goes away. In a strange twist of fate, as I was writing his part of the book, I saw him standing in front of the gym I go to. He had [...]