When it Comes to Dating, You Have to Be Willing to Try

Q: Best solo activity?
Reading, eating anywhere with a comfortable counter, driving and listening to interesting radio, books and watching politics without apology or explanation.

Q: Biggest Accomplishment?
Giving my nieces a positive role model for women alone... My examples of single women were widows and nuns, but Laura and Erin have a funny and successful woman to consider.

Q: Your Perfect Spot?
Anywhere under the stars or looking at a full moon.

Q: Most Inspiring Book?
The last one I read and loved...

Q: Safety Starts With?
The assumption that the world is a safe place.

Q: Best Restaurant?
At Grand Bakery, just blocks from my house, the owner and the waitresses and the person next to me almost always strike up a funny conversation.

Q: Best Just For One Product?
Public Radio...it is conversation and companionship with no one else in the room.

Q: Words to Live By?
"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm." Willa Cather

Q: How Do You Beat The Blues?
A backyard hot tub with a good friend, stars and/or a full moon overhead.

Q: What You Love About Being Single?
-- No spectators! -- There is no one to narrow or push your perception of things.

Q: Words of Wisdom for Others:
I once ran into a chipped glass coffee table I had, and cut myself deeply. You remember those 7th grade science pictures of all of the layers of 'dermis? I could see all of them. So I'm bleeding profusely. Literally, I was standing in my living room and my blood was shooting out and landing in my foyer. Because friends whose numbers I'd memorized were gone, I called 911. I told my sister about it the day after... how the 911 workers came up, assessed my situation, helped to stop the bleeding and found someone to drive me to the hospital. Her response was, "Were any of them cute?" I said, "Er. You know. Me in one room, my blood in another...I wasn't paying much attention." She said, "Look. If you aren't even going to try..."