Here Goes!

I am one of those people who feel better if they write down their feelings about their experiences. As a woman in my fifties, newly thrust onto the dating scene, I am finding it frustratingly difficult to connect with a man who gets my mojo going. For a while there, I thought my mojo had given up the ghost and died, but then I had a brief online fling with a man who not only revived my mojo but made me feel as frisky as a twenty-year-old. Unfortunately (fortunately?), I have not been 20 for a long time and my older and wiser self wised up before I got myself in any trouble. More on that later.

I just assumed that all my dating troubles were attributable to my age, since I never had any trouble finding someone to date, say, ten or twenty years ago. But when I read advice columns (one of my secret vices) and blogs written by younger women, I realize they seem to be having the same difficulties I am having. So maybe it's not so much MY age as just THE age, the time we are living in. Or maybe it's just that all the good men are already taken and all that is left are the riff-raff, the kind of men we only pick when we don't think we can do any better. Well, I can't claim to have much of a perspective on the middle-aged dating scene, but I can write about my own experiences and maybe help myself see things more clearly and perhaps give any readers who might materialize out there something to laugh about from time to time. So let's see how it goes.