About Me
The good folks (okay, computers) at JDate keep pestering me to fill in the blanks on my profile. The irony is that I write for a living (steadily for a major newspaper and on-line site and sometimes magazines, too) about entertaining subjects and am considered quite an amusing/interesting chatterbox. But I find myself totally flummoxed by this Tabula rasa. Quite frankly, I signed onto JDate with a bad case of the holiday/separation blues and really just to “window-shop” -- to cheer myself that there’s another adorable, successful, whip-smart, youthful, fit and funny somebody out there for me, for Act 3 of my Made-for-Lifetime TV movie. (Really, it is one.) At the same time, though, I’m reluctant to act (maybe Steve Carell or Tom Hanks could play me?) the proscribed role. While goading friends insist I’m “quite a catch,” I’m fearful of the nets, still grieving (nobody ever admits that on JDate, it seems) and not at all certain (double ouch) who or what I want next. Like the Magic 8 Ball obliquely foretells, “Ask again later.”