Here we go again...

I'll be honest with you. I was afraid to even broach the subject. Something as ethereal and delicate as love can't be tethered down with a few blunt words. So my idea was that if I cast a wide net, I'd somehow be able to capture everything in the vicinity of love. Maybe amidst the kelp and minnows of confusion and he said she said I'd be able to snag something I can serve up for dinner. Or put above my mantel as a testament to all my hard work and say, "See, this is what love looks like. A big smelly fish." I don't really know how to go about it, but I do know I can't hit it straight on. Its kind of like trying to swat a fly. You have to creep up slowly, then pause when you are thisclose, and only when you know you've got it in the bag can you swoop in for the kill.

But I digress. For whatever reason, I have a pressing need to consider matters of the hear these days. I can’t pin it on any one thing, and I suppose it boils down to a number of factors: my own love lost (or, as I prefer to think of it, displaced for the time being), friends in perpetual relationship crisis mode, the feeling that I am getting up there (read: when are you going to get married and have babies?) as I teeter uneasily on the cusp of 27, I’m presently reading Eat, Pray, Love , Cirque du Soleil has that Beatles Love show playing, more than half of my friends, family, and celebrities on my radar have gotten married and/or engaged in the last year (even Ashlee Simpson, for gosh sakes), and gay marriage finally became legal in the state of California (yeah!). It seems like love and marriage are everywhere, and its about time someone other than Oprah, Dr. Phil, the dude who wrote Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, Carrie Bradshaw and the Sex and the City cast, and my mother addressed this question. So, I just figured that person should be me. I’m not going to feign humility and ask, “What would little naive me have to say about something as profound as love?” I’m not claiming to know the answers, but I’ve got something to say about it alright, therefore you should listen. (I think I already mentioned I’m out of stock in the logic department).

So yeah, how can I say this delicately? I don’t really care what anyone else has to say on the subject right now. Oh, except all those couples at the beginning of When Harry Met Sally. They can stay. I like them.