Ok, so I am definitely single.  It's been several, well more years than I hate to admit, since I last dated.  For a moment there, I felt I was in a confessional.  It's not a sin to be alone, I just think it's about time I went out there and tried my luck at on-line dating. It's not that I am a lonely woman, I go out with my friends or by myself.  I just thought that it's about time to find someone to share some fun with me like hiking, dancing, going to the movies.

Six months ago I started on-line "dating," you might even call it trolling.  I would like to report that this has been a relatively successful experience.  If you measure success by how many dates I have been on or if I have met "Mr. Right" then I will have to admit that for the most part it has been challenging.  I am learning how to discern the wheat from the chaff and not to reply to those men who profess love before meeting me, or who have asked me for money, or those who want to know where I would like to relocate once they get back from their business trip in the middle east.  Really??  I learned the meaning of "catfished."  Those bottom feeders who prey on women not gain love and belonging, but money or even Mac computers while they lie their way into a woman's heart.  I have learned that men too are the victims of this social phenomenon.  I won't give up!  "Mr. Right" may be just around the corner or as my mother would say, "he might have a brother."  For the moment, I am concentrating on "Mr. Right Now."

Some stories just have to be told.  Till next time...