This is the week that spring really starts. For some with gardens and with the obvious “green thumb” they’ve been busy buying and planting their flowers, shrubs and other pollen creators to add color to their “humble abodes” and can now start to appreciate their work.

Then the are others, like me, that do have a humble abode, with a front and back yard, that simply wait for the boss’s teen to come and earn some money by mowing and clipping until my heart is content - and as far as the yard goes it doesn’t take much - and his job is done. And I can stay inside knowing that my neighbors no longer hate me as much for an unkempt yard.

Yes, spring is hard. I would like to say it’s even harder for condo and apartment dwellers but never having been on that side of the road I just don’t have any experience to decide if it’s a good thing or a bad thing, living in a big building with little green-space and possibly the desire to still grow green and colorful things.

Online dating, believe me, is the green-space of your life.

Either you take control and allow only the beautiful plants to inhabit your space, or you give up and let the weeds run rampant, crowding out the beauty, choking off the dream of a pure green-space of your own, that used to be under your control.

Online dating is the only place where you are in complete control of the messages you send, of understanding, generally in-depth, the person you’re going to email by reading all they wanted to share on their own profiles before you even commit to a single alphabet character being sent their way.

Online dating is your green garden, waiting for the right mix of color and durability for what you pant there. Waiting for the mix of light and darkness to be right to provide the correct growing conditions.

It’s all up to you.

For your headline today I suggest this:
“What is your mix of sun and shade?”

Have a great day!