Reflections From The Dating Pool PDF Download

When you're single and dating on an island where the odds aren't good and the goods are odd, you've got to have a colorful perspective on dating dos and don'ts and a good sense of humor to survive. When Cricket Desmarais got dumped and left clueless as to why, she reflected on the reasons she couldn't see it coming, spurring a year's worth of weekly entertainment columns about dating and relating in the Florida Keys. With the help of friends and those that wrote in, she tackled tough questions like "Is it true there are plenty of fish in the sea?", "What's wrong with fishing from the company pier?", "How do you know when to throw your catch back?", and the timeless "Does size really matter?" Love on the Rock: Irreverent Reflections & Terrible Dating Advice from a Key West Singleton compiles all the columns from 2006 - 2007 in one book, which delivers a collection of riffs, rants, tips, and ridiculous but thoughtful content Key West Singletons and beyond might appreciate.Bring some wind into your dating doldrums, read it to reminisce on your own footloose and fancy-free days, or simply cringe at the metaphors and marvel at innuendos made in an effort to "keep it clean" for the Keys-wide Keynoter newspaper it was published in. "Single. It's a word that tends to stiffen the lips of the unattached, though Webster's New World Thesaurus makes us feel better with terms like unique, original, exceptional. Unequaled, unrivaled, unattached. Free, footloose, why even- rare. Though that does sound a bit disease-like, doesn't it?Read on a bit further and we find that we are also the unwed, the celibate, the eligible. Maybe not all three all of the time, but I'd garner that a good many of us find ourselves fitting into at least one of those definitions here on this two-by-four island where inevitably any date may be the ex of one of our friends or the friends of one of our exes."? - Love on the Rock, column #1