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Eyes Over Here: Are You Making Enough Contact?

I was out with some friends the other day and there was this beautiful man in the restaurant. I mean, he was ridiculous. While normally I try not to be obvious in my ogling, I found myself staring at him. I stared for long enough to realize what I was doing and quickly busy myself [...]

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Men Behaving Badly, Unless You’re a Pretty Girl

Helen of Troy is cited as the cause for the Trojan War—“the face that launched a thousand ships” was spirited away from her husband by another man, according to Greek mythology, and then it all went down. It’s not a great reputation for women, and we’ve received blame for a lot of things since then. [...]

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Put a Ring On It…Or Not.

I wear jewelry every day. As in bright, bold jewelry. I wear it so often that when I forget, my students ask me what’s wrong and look concerned, as though I must be having some sort of crisis because I don’t have bracelets chiming together on my wrist and earrings they can admire. Of all [...]

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Location, Location, Location: Positioning Yourself for Success

Of all the places to meet people, bars are one of the most debated. There is the argument that you can’t find quality, husband-material men there. I can see the reasoning, but if you caught me at midnight out with my friends, singing along to some horrible song and goofing around, I probably wouldn’t look [...]

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