Given our recent discussion (see: Monday’s comments section) about single life, I thought I’d share a New York Times article excerpt with y’all:

[A] new Web site, SingleEdition.com, wants nothing more than to embrace [singles]. And unlike dating sites that treat being single as a predicament, this one celebrates flying solo, and offers shopping, financial and other advice to help them do so with pride.

“If you Google the term ‘single,’ all that comes up is dating, dating, dating,” said Sherri Langburt, a founder of SingleEdition.com. “But what we’re saying is there’s a whole other realm of things that go on for a single person that are not dating.”

Articles on the site give advice on how to entertain in small apartments (have cheese- or chocolate-tasting parties instead of sit-down meals), how to cook for one (try freezing homemade soup in ice trays to simplify defrosting single portions) and how to select gifts for other singles (perhaps an audio book or a G.P.S. device to help a solo driver).

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Swing over to SingleEdition.com for all kinds of great info about you own personal table for one. Ah, the singles life. I have my ups and down. I make mistakes. I sometimes feel lonely. I date men I probably shouldn’t, and I think I self-sabotage relationships without even knowing that I’m doing until months (sometimes years) later. That said, I still wouldn’t trade my single and dating life for anyone else’s. So, if you like SingleEdition.com, check out my Q&A interview. Yep, they got down with the funky brown!!!! Read: Chocolate, wine tasting and museum visits. No wonder Twanna has fallen in love with single living! And, speaking of chocolate, tonight I’ve been invited to a special chocolate tasting down by Wall Street. Yum! Wanna come? I’ll Twitter the details. Follow along with me.

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“Any pointers for single women in NYC?” Time Out New York asks a 26 year-old UES-dweller interviewed for their article on the lives of single women. Her answer? “God help you.” Attack of the Single Women. That’s the cover story of the newest issue of Time Out New York. It hits newsstands, mailboxes and bookshelves today. Or, or course, you could just read the article online. “Why,” you might ask, “are single women in NYC getting so much attention?” Well, that’s because we’re fucking hot. That’s why. Kidding aside, here’s the real reason … A couple of months ago, National Geographic culled together U.S. Census data to publish statistics — together with an extremely impressive singles map — that details the single female-to-male ratio in various American cities. The results show that 185,000 more women than men live in New York. As a result, single chicas on the prowl for dates have to battle even more competition. Yep, we’re screwed. Thanks. Actually, anyone who lives in NYC already knew that. But, I guess it doesn’t hurt to have a bit of scientific data to back us up.

Leaping from the pages of one magazine to another, the National Geographic piece inspired Time Out New York to conduct an in-depth explanation of NYC’s bumper crop of women. It’s a great article. At the same time, I kind of get the impression that TONY was surprised to discover that most of the women that they interviewed were [and I quote], “remarkably okay with being single.” Interesting choice of words. It’s hard to imagine reading the same sentence about married men and women: “The people we talked to were remarkably okay with being married.”After all, don’t we all know as many unhappy married people as we do unhappy single people?

Hmm … All this talk about relationship status has me wondering what your status is. Feast or famine: what’s the story of your love life right now? Are you currently feasting on several different partners? Are you starving for dates? Are you comfortably settled in a longterm relationship? Have you been gnawing on the same meal for quite a while now? Does every day feel like desserts? Feel free to use the comment section to tell me if you’re single, married, dating or other.

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