Summer of Bean

There was a very interesting conversation over at Sullivan’s blog this last week over deception in dating.  It started out with this post and continued.
But consider a more common scenario: two people who meet in a bar, or on Match.com, both with their share of character flaws. Perhaps one of them is more interested than [...]

I’m terrible with the boy-girl thing.  It goes all the way back to childhood.  So shy was I in elementary school that when I went to make the first move of my life, on a girl named Jenni Myers, I was too chicken.  Instead I asked the kid who sat next to her in class [...]

 
It seems a lot longer than two years since I declared the last Summer of Bean.  A lot has happened in that time.  I read The Dip and decided to try and live it.  I left a relatively stable job and struck out on my own to see what that felt like for a while. [...]