I wrote a post around a year ago about my heartbreak and anguish over letting my fear allow me to stop following and living my passion (which had already been a 20 year-long purpose) of acting and performing. I feel like a very important part of my soul...

Sometimes, it's hard to find a good man... and sometimes, we are so desperate to FIND a man and be in a relationship that we can overlook things. But I have really learned over the past few weeks that if you want to know the true quality of a man,...

We were all touched in some way by the Sandy Hook school shootings and the loss of lives. We have either actually been part of the experience of Hurricane Sandy or sat and watched its destruction. The Aurora shootings, the terror and wars in the Middle East -- it seems...

I want a strong man. That's what it truly comes down to for me, and I think for most women -- strong in the sense that he knows who he is and what he stands for. Strong in the sense that we feel safe being with him. Strong in the...

When I worked out in college, I pretty much just sped walked on the treadmill and copied what all the other girls I thought were in shape were doing. Once out of college, when I was doing the actor thing, I thought I should get a personal trainer -- I...

I've had a few moments recently of feeling, well, really just bored and completely uninspired and kinda purposeless. And these feelings, once they grabbed a hold of me, really didn't want to let go! These feelings then took me farther down the rabbit hole into a space of desperation where...

As I've written in previous posts, I used to be an actress. I grew up an actress... I got my first agent around the age of 5, and left my last agent at 25. I was always going to be an actress. That was my identity. I never even considered...

Yes, yes, we know I watch The Bachelor and The Bachelorette (um... because it's research for my dating articles, of course). I balk at it, and yet am still drawn in by the over-the-top, sweeping romance of it all. "The moment we jumped off the bridge on our second date,...

A little while before I met my boyfriend (or rather, re-met, as we first met each other in 7th grade... but that's a whole other story), I got to a very interesting and surprising place. A place of surrender, which became a place of power. To set the scene, I...

I had some upsetting personal news... so I cried about it once, "put it in a box," so to speak, and then got on with my life as usual. Usual. Usual?! Humph. When did usual start meaning scrubbing my hands with hot water and soap four times in the bathroom...

I wrote a previous post about the really cool Art of Drums collection that SceneFour is doing (earlier collaborations have been with Matt Sorum of Guns N Roses and Velvet Revolver and Stephen Perkins of Jane's Addiction), where the rhythm of the drumsticks literally creates a piece of...

I received some emails after my last post "He Didn't Call When I Wanted Him To," asking -- "okay, well what if he didn't even call at ALL!?"

I know how awful that is... that sinking feeling in your stomach... the heat flashes or chills running through your...

A friend of mine was really angry that she hadn't heard from this guy. They had a great second date and at the end of that date, he had asked her out again. By the morning of the next planned date night, she hadn't heard from him yet. She was...

I had dinner with a single girlfriend of mine the other night. She's in her early 30's, really cute, sexy, smart, fun... But no guy she dates seems to be sticking lately. She's finding herself in that constant agony of dating. She was talking about how she was really disappointed...

I saw Green Day's American Idiot last Friday at the Ahmanson. I'm a huge Green Day fan, so I expected to love the music and enjoy the show. I expected the social commentary and for it to be thought-provoking, and to then discuss the state of the world with my...

I admit it. I am a "Bachelor" junkie. It is my guilty pleasure. People in my life know not to call me from 8-10pm on Monday nights. To me, it's eh-hem, research. I write about dating and relationships, and can't think of a better way to see the behaviors and...

I haven't been much fun to be around since the New Year. I've been in a funk. Unmotivated. Defeated and resigned to the state of my life (a state I wasn't happy with). In fact, now that I'm looking back, I realize that I began this downward spiral into a...

You know that moment when you run into an old love? Not just someone you used to sorta date, but THE one ... Emotions come quickly, making you confuse strong memories with thinking you still love them or should be with them, swiftly followed by the flood of pain and...

As soon as I heard we are all being forced to automatically switch to the new Facebook Timeline, I was not a happy camper. I have purposely not changed mine yet, been grateful that my boyfriend hasn't changed his and had a hell of a time trying to figure out...

I have a full-time writing job in addition to the freelance writing and teaching I do... it's the whole clock-in-and-out 40 hours a week thing. The other night I went to my boyfriend's after work. He lives in the Valley. For those of us Los Angeles people, you know the...