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Dating with disease
Dating is no picnic. And dating with a disease – for instance, breast cancer, which took both my hair and my boobs — is practically impossible. But I’m hardly the only single out there trying to find...
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The doomsdating machine
Maybe it’s just me, but there’s nothing I like more than a niche dating site, especially one that caters to a particularly obscure slice of singles. In the past, I’ve written about green dating sites...
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Are you a spreadsheet dater?
I got an email the other day from a writer from some British magazine, asking me if I had ever interviewed anyone who’d used an Excel spreadsheet for dating. She’d read one of the stories I’d written...
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Dating a younger man
My inbox was humming yesterday after a story I wrote a couple of years ago about dating younger men popped up on Yahoo’s home page (the piece originally appeared on Match’s online magazine, Happen). In...
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Surviving the holiday season as a singleton
I usually don’t get too down during the holidays because of my single status. One trip to the mall to see couples sniping at each other as they struggle through their monstrous to-do lists usually...
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Navigating the Valentine’s Day dating onslaught
Happy almost Valentine’s Day, everyone. As usual, the TV, radio and interwebs are lousy with advertisements for flowers, jewelry, candy, cars, and yes, even that horrible chocolate wine. Just as...
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Celebrating the independent life
Long ago, in a universe far away, I was married. And when that marriage ended and I moved out on my own for the very first time (I went from living with my family to living with college roommates to...
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New dating apps take ‘less is more’ approach
A few years ago, a psychologist at Columbia University by the name of Sheena Iyengar conducted a study on the “tyranny of choice” we face each day by conducting experiments that tempted people with...
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The brutal truth of dating after 50
Here’s an oldie but goodie I wrote for TODAY.com a couple of years ago. I can still relate. Can you? Dating in your 50s isn’t all that bad. It’s getting naked that’s brutal. I’m kidding. Sort of. The...
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Single Shot Seattle: Would you like a little attitude with that?
Welcome tomy website I’m Diane Mapes, a local writer who grew up picking berries, climbing trees, playing the piano and reading monster mysteries and ghost stories on a gorgeously dysfunctional...
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