| About Me: |
I'm a local, born in New York City, and for the first years of my life my family lived on 88th Street between Park and Madison. We moved to Fairfield, Connecticut, when I was about four, and I spent most of my childhood there, although I did go away to boarding school in Massachusetts. I came back to Connecticut to go to college at Yale and then moved down to Washington, D.C., to embark on a career as a political journalist.
With only a few years off, I've been a writer ever since. I've held several jobs as a magazine editorâ€â€ÂÂI'm now an editor-in-chiefâ€â€ÂÂand I've written three books as well (hoping to start a fourth soon). I love what I do, despite the current turmoil in my industry, and continue to take satisfaction from writing and editing and trying to do the best I can with words. I believe in expression, communication, and candor.
It's a philosophy I try to adopt in my personal life as well. In a relationship, I look for communication, honesty, trust and effort. I don't expect perfection, as I'm sure I couldn't promise it myself. But I am optimistic about relationships, and I believe that with the qualities above they can succeed and really enrich one's lifeâ€â€ÂÂboth people's lives. I can't see ever feeling differently about that.
I suppose those are the things that matter most to me in a woman, far more than what she looks like or what she does for a living or how much money she makes. (That is one virtue of having made it to my 40s without being marriedâ€â€ÂÂyou really do come to know yourself and know what you value in a relationship.) I'm looking for someone who's both romantic and committed, someone who's not afraid of work in a relationship but also believes in joy and laughter and light and love. I like to think that I give a lot in relationships, but it's probably fair to say that I ask a lot as well. I think that's importantâ€â€ÂÂthe ability to be there for someone, and to know that she's there for you in return. If you don't have that faith, that ability to trust, you don't have anything; and if you do have that, everything else follows..... |
