Every so often, I send a text message to an ex-girlfriend of mine and ask how she’s doing. She always texts back – doing great. I follow that up with a text to see if she wants to grab a drink or maybe come over. She knows what’s on my mind…. after all, before we [...]
When my girlfriend and I broke up last November I figured it was over for good. I’d been around the block enough times to know that rebounding with an ex was a bad idea. Still, when she texted me for booty in early March, I didn’t say no. And so began a rekindling that never [...]
The Bay Area is getting a taste of summer this weekend, and yesterday’s sunny hot day was ready-made for a buddy and I to go wine tasting in the Santa Cruz Mountains. (He’s one of the good guys, not a sleazy married wingman type.) I was feeling great from a 25-mile bike ride that morning, [...]
Dad’s House was recently selected to be part of Alltop – a website that collects stories from “all the top sites” on the internet. It’s the brainchild of Will Mayall, Kathryn Henkens, and Guy Kawasaki, the noted Apple evangelist from back in the day. (I was at Xerox around that same time.) Single mom bloggers [...]
Warm weather has hit the Bay Area, and you’d think I’d have spring fever right now. Especially when a sexy ex-girlfriend lands back in my lap, eager to resume last summer’s torrid affair. What guy wouldn’t want to put and end to the madness of internet dating, get out of a too-small dating pool, steer [...]
An ex-girlfriend recently texted my cell phone asking for a booty call. I didn’t say no. She’d been sending me not-so dirty text messages on and off since we’d broken up a few months before, usually just saying hi, how r u, hope u r good. I sensed she wanted us back together, despite the [...]
David Mott is a divorced single father of a teen daughter and son offering stories, tips and opinions on single parenting, two-home families, cooking, cocktails, self awareness - and relationships formed in an age of online dating, text messaging, and booty calls.
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