OC Singles Events: Huntington Beach Surf City Nights in The OC

July 5, 2011

 OC Singles Events:  Huntington Beach Surf City Nights in The OC Summer 2011   It seems like the 4th of July was only yesterday and you were watching the fireworks displays in Orange County, CA.  Oh wait, yesterday WAS Independence Day 2011!   Are you still looking for fireworks to display in your love life [...]

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OC Singles Event: Fountain Valley Summer Concert Series 2011

June 30, 2011

OC Singles Event: Fountain Valley Summer Concert Series July 2011 Thursdays in July 2011 just heated up for OC singles to have more social options, enjoy Orange County summers and casually and comfortably socialize with others.  Just the way things work in The OC:  casual and beautiful sunny weather! After the 4th of July with [...]

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OC Singles Events: 4th of July in Newport Beach

June 28, 2011

OC Singles Events: 4th of July in Newport Beach With the largest Independence Day Parade this side of the Mississippi River just down the road on the Pacific Coast Highway (PCH to locals) in Huntington Beach, CA, Newport Beach’s 4th of July celebration festivities seem much smaller by comparison.   However, when what you’re looking [...]

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OC Singles Events Aliso Viejo 4th of July Fireworks

June 27, 2011

OC Singles Events Aliso Viejo 4th of July Fireworks So, if you’re a single who just enjoyed the fun 4th of July Parade Monday morning, July 4th, over in Lake Forest, CA, then you might be wondering where you’re going to catch a good fireworks display in the evening of Independence Day.  Well, head on [...]

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OC Singles Event Lake Forest Independence Day Parade

June 26, 2011

OC Singles Event Lake Forest Independence Day Parade   If you’re an Orange County CA based single then you may be living in the deep suburbs where just about everyone else around you is married and a family.  It can seem incredibly difficult to actually meet other singles like yourself.  It’s not like living in [...]

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OC Singles Event: Laguna Hills 4th of July Celebration and Fireworks

June 25, 2011

OC Singles Event: Laguna Hills 4th of July Celebration and Fireworks If you’re an OC Single and have been reading my series on selecting some of the 4th of July Festivities to celebrate and to enjoy alone or with your family and friends, then you already know of a number of ways I suggest how [...]

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OC Singles Events: Sunsets at the Zoo Santa Ana Wine Tasting Sunday June 26

June 24, 2011

OC Singles Events: Sunsets at the Zoo Santa Ana Wine Tasting Sunday June 26, 2011   Also known as Brew At The Zoo, the Santa Ana Zoo is hosting their Sunsets at the Zoo Series this summer.  For full details:  Sunsets at the Santa Ana Zoo.  The Santa Ana zoo sponsors a summer concert series [...]

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OC Singles Event: 33rd Annual Taste of Greece Festival Irvine

June 24, 2011

OC Singles Event: 33rd Annual “A Taste of Greece” Festival Irvine June 24 – 26, 2011   Starts today and runs through this weekend in The OC.   After the popularity of Hollywood film, “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” which inspires a lot of single women to be happy with whatever their size and shape [...]

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OC Singles Huntington Beach 4th of July Parade

June 23, 2011

107th Annual Huntington Beach 4th of July Parade If you live and Orange County, CA, or are just planning to visit for the Independence Day Holiday long weekend, and you’re single, you don’t have to stuff the weekend with “meeting other singles” activities when your goal is finding a husband or attracting a long term [...]

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OC Singles Celebrating 4th of July in Tustin

June 22, 2011

OC Singles Celebrating 4th of July in Tustin   Celebrating the 4th of July with family, friends and fireworks is part of the great American tradition of celebrating Independence Day festivities.   When you’re single, sometimes we must strive to develop a second family, like many of us do right after college in our early [...]

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Jewish Singles Dating Tip: Get Active in Your Community PT 2

June 21, 2011

Jewish Singles Dating Tip: Get Active in Your Community PT 2 Following up on my series for Jewish Singles to Get Active in Your Local Community PT1 When selecting what activities you want to add to your life to increase your changes of your finding a Jewish mate, you want to select activities and events [...]

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SF Singles: Attend the SFYR June Happy Hour in Cow Hollow

June 20, 2011

SF Singles: Attend the SFYR June Happy Hour in Cow Hollow Featuring Guest Speaker John R. Graham   When I lived in San Francisco and was in my Single Again time after becoming widowed, one of my favorite monthly activities to put into my social calendar was to attend the SFYR Monthy Happy Hour.  I [...]

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Dating Expert Advice to Dads Dating Again After Divorce with Tweens

June 20, 2011

Dating Expert Advice to Dads Dating Again After Divorce with Tweens   Following onto my dating after divorce for dads article from yesterday where I addresses introducing your dating status in subtle way to your kids when they are young, today’s article is for the divorced dads who have at least one child who is [...]

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Dating Expert Advice to Dads Dating Again After Divorce

June 19, 2011

Dating Expert Advice to Dads Dating Again After Divorce Happy Father’s Day!  In honor of Father’s Day, I thought I’d respond to some of the recent requests, emails, and comments wondering about how divorced dads can present themselves well dating again after divorce.  How can you put your best dating foot forward?  And how can [...]

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Northern NJ Singles Dating Tip: Celebrate Father’s Day Nutley Street Fair

June 19, 2011

Northern NJ Singles Dating Tip: Celebrate Father’s Day Nutley Street Fair Held along Franklin Avenue in Nutley, NJ, the local Father’s Day celebration features a lot of the classic local town fair items we’ve come to expect and cherish over the years but which you just don’t find at every local festival anymore.  Items like [...]

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San Francisco Dating Expert Advice: 57th Annual North Beach Festival

June 18, 2011

San Francisco Dating Expert Advice to SF Singles:  Attend the 57th Annual North Beach Festival Having lived in San Francisco for years, dated and wed there and then dated massively again after being widowed quite young, I have loved the opportunity to get out mix it up and mingle with others so easily and casually [...]

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Jewish Singles Dating Tip: Get Active in Your Community

June 17, 2011

Jewish Singles Dating Tip:  Get Active in Your Community   I know I publish a lot about internet dating and do coaching and write or consult on singles’ online dating profiles.  However, since 4 out of 5 relationship start offline, and certainly living the life of a married couple will be done offline in the [...]

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Internet Dating Personas of Men Online: Divorced Dad Armor Wall

June 16, 2011

Internet Dating Personas of Men Online: Divorced Dad Armor Wall   Another archtype of the singles guys single women meet and encounter at the online dating sites but less so at the internet personals ads sites is the Divorced Dad with an armor wall up.  Ladies, you are less likely to encounter this guy at [...]

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Book Review of “Cast Your Net”: Eric Fagan Makes Finding Love Online Simple, Fun, and Easy

June 14, 2011

Book Review of “Cast Your Net”: Eric Fagan Makes Finding Love Online Simple, Fun, and Easy In the early days of cyber dating we are all stumbling around on our own.  I am one of those early Bellwethers of what is not called Internet Dating or Online Dating which back in those fun Neanderthal pioneer [...]

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Internet Dating Personas of Women: She’s Ready to Wed Yesterday

June 13, 2011

Internet Dating Personas of Women: She’s Ready to Wed Yesterday   Remember the old classic Hollywood Judy Holliday Movie, “Born Yesterday?”  Melanie Griffith did a remake version of it in the 1990s.  Well this woman at the internet matchmaking sites?  In her dating profile is is ready to “Wed Yesterday!”   Ready ready ready   [...]

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Internet Dating Personas of Men Online: Wussy Guy

June 12, 2011

Internet Dating Personas of Men Online: Wussy Guy Ladies, who do you want to avoid at the internet dating sites?  Who are the online time wasters? Single women tell me in workshops, coaching, and emails asking about what are the red flags and warning signs of unavailable guys online.   Today’s smart single women who’re [...]

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Internet Dating Personas of Women: She Gives High Maintenance a Bad Name

June 11, 2011

Internet Dating Personas of Women: She Gives High Maintenance a Bad Name She wants Entertainment Executive men earning over 250k, Million Dollar Investment Bankers or Venture Capitalists.   She’s never cleaned her own toilet bowl and isn’t about to start now.   This woman spends her days at the day spas getting her hair done [...]

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Internet Dating Profile Personas of Men: Mr. Laid Back

June 10, 2011

Internet Dating Profile Personas of Men: Mr. Laid Back   It  could be a sign of the era of the Modern Day Male who has been taught to be sensitive.   It could be he’s a GenX or GenY backlash against the over achieving family neglecting Type A MBAs of the 1980s guys.   Or [...]

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Relationship Success Tip: What to Take Along with You on a Couples Retreat PT 6

June 9, 2011

Relationship Success Tip: What to Take Along with You on a Couples Retreat PT 6   Just before you two leave to enjoy the Couples Retreat ….   The week before you leave, on Sunday at church, check with the people in charge of the congregations’ retreat that you two are properly registered, your payments [...]

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Relationship Tip What to Take Along on Your Couples Retreat PT 5

June 8, 2011

Relationship Success Tip: What to Take with You on a Couples Retreat PT 5   Sensual Treats: Since most Retreat Centers are a bit rural and rustic and that is part of their charm, they won’t be having any of the luxury amenities and toiletries of the luxury hotels and spas.  And yet think of [...]

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Honoring D-Day Remembered June 6, 1944

June 6, 2011

D-Day Remembered June 6, 1944 Honoring D-Day June 6, 1944 D-Day was  June 6th, 1944 http://www.army.mil/d-day/ has a video special video for D-Day.   D-Day occurred years before I was even born, but thanks to such amazing Hollywood movies as the 1962 “The Longest Day” which Turner Classic Movies screens just about annually those of [...]

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Relationship Success Tip: What to Take with You on a Couples Retreat PT 4

June 4, 2011

Relationship Success Tip: What to Take with You on a Couples Retreat PT 4 Ladies, this post is for you.  I know I recommended bringing along a few special treats.  However, I’m getting on my soap box for this post about what to bring with you for a Couples Retreat just for addressing the women [...]

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Relationship Success Tip: What to Take with You on a Couples Retreat PT 3

June 3, 2011

Relationship Success Tip: What to Take with You on a Couples Retreat Pt 3 Sweatshirts/Fleece Tops: While it can be incredibly gorgeous, sunny, warm, and even hot during the day time, often the areas where Retreat Centers are located will get quite chilly at night with significant drops in the temperature.  Feel free to bring [...]

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Relationship Success Tip: What to Take with You on a Couples Retreat Pt 2

June 2, 2011

Relationship Success Tip: What to Take with You on a Couples Retreat Pt 2 Books, Bible Versions, and Notebooks: If this is a Couples Bible Study or Adult Study Forum retreat, than do check in advance if you need to purchase the study book like N.T. Wright’s “Surprised by Hope” in advance or if copies [...]

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Relationship Success Tip: What to Take with You on a Couples Retreat

June 1, 2011

Relationship Success Tip: What to Take with You on a Couples Retreat   With the season of Summer Retreat centers opening up before us after the Memorial Day weekend, many of the different Christian and Catholic ministries are sponsoring Bible Study Weekends, Adult Study Forum Weekends, and Couple Retreats to support their ministering to the [...]

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Christian Couples Relationship Success Tip: Attend a Retreat Together

May 31, 2011

Christian Couples Relationship Success Tip:  Attend a Retreat Together When you’re a married couple, it’s an important Relationship Success Habit for the ongoing health and vitality of your marriage relationship to invest some time regularly in taking a retreat together, just the two of you.   Even Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar visited San Francisco [...]

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Celebrate Memorial Day Mingling with the Crowds Dating Tips for Singles

May 30, 2011

Anytime there is a long holiday weekend, no matter where you live in the United States or Canada, if you poke around in the local events calendars for your city or region, you will be able to locate at least 1 if not several civic celebrations, public fairs, or street fair celebrations where single men [...]

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Memorial Day Weekend Dating Tips for Young Singles

May 27, 2011

Memorial Day Weekend Dating Tips for Young Singles   Continuing on the them of the official kickoff to Summer Romance season with Memorial Day weekend, I want to address the dating needs of young singles.   The art of dating and how you approach each other, your opening remarks, body language signals, conversations, and very [...]

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Memorial Day Weekend Dating Tips For Singles: Go to Las Vegas

May 26, 2011

Memorial Day Weekend Dating Tips For Singles: Go to Las Vegas   If you live in the Midwest and Northern parts of the United States, and certainly Canada, than even though we have the US holiday of Memorial Day weekend approaching as the official start of Summer Time, the weather you are enjoying may be [...]

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Memorial Day Weekend Dating Tips for Guys: How to Approach a Beautiful Girl By The Pool In Las Vegas

May 25, 2011

Memorial Day Weekend Dating Tips for Guys: How to Approach a Beautiful Girl by the Pool in Las Vegas Success Secret Tip For Guys to Succeed with Girls: Guys, you in particular want to know this for increasing your chances of success with how to approach a girl.   Predominately the best looking girls do [...]

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Memorial Day Weekend Dating Tips for Singles

May 24, 2011

Memorial Day Weekend Dating Tips for Singles   Here in the United States Memorial Day weekend is approaching.  And that signals the start of Summertime with its fun association of Summer Romance!   When you hear the phrase, “Summer Romance,” what do you imagine?  Beach Boys music playing in the background?  Surfer dudes and bikini [...]

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Facebook Dating Tips for Singles: Are You Friend or Faux?

May 23, 2011

Facebook Dating Tips for Singles: Are You Friend or Faux? Facebook Dating Tips 4 Singles: Are You Friend or Faux? Facebook Dating Advice for Singles: Is That a FB Friend or Fake Person Friending You? Facebook Dating Help 4 Singles: Be Careful of Fake Profiles Facebook Dating Singles:  Be Cautious Accepting FB Friend Requests from [...]

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Internet Dating Textetiquette Texting Tip #10 for Singles: Don’t Kiss and Tell and Forward Texts

May 22, 2011

Internet Dating Textetiquette Texting Tip #10 for Singles: Don’t Kiss and Tell and Forward Texts This particular text etiquette faux pas is more within the arena of what we single women fall guilty of.  It’s the Kiss and Tell story, and I don’t mean the Brian Ferry song from the 1980s.  Frankly, this is already [...]

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Internet Dating Textetiquette Texting Tip #9 for Singles: HEY Is Not a Message

May 21, 2011

Internet Dating Textetiquette Texting Tip #9 for Singles: HEY Is Not a Message   My all time nadir loathing hatedness of text messaging is when a guy who’s as yet never met you sends a text message only saying, “Hey.”   What wit! What intellectualism! What grandiosity of the Art of Conversation!   When his [...]

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Internet Dating Textetiquette Texting Tip #8 for Singles: Throw Em a Bone

May 20, 2011

Internet Dating Textetiquette Texting Tip #8 for Singles: Throw Em a Bone Even with all of the Texetiquette tips I’m giving to internet dating singles with texting and Communication Phase guidelines for moving from first contact at the online dating sites through the whitewaters to the First Date, even with rules, remember to be gracious. [...]

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