Why the Web Wins

By Mark Miller
Published on February 17, 2005

I know you're not gonna believe this, but before Internet dating sites, couples actually used to meet "offline" -- out in public -- often by chance: at parties, dances, supermarkets, museums, bookstores. No, really! But like the Tyrannosaurus rex, the Edsel automobile and Steven Segal's career, offline dating is seemingly on its way to extinction. Oh, sure, a few couples occasionally meet offline, as God intended, in the course of their daily lives, much like our pioneer ancestors, but they're just lucky and we resent them. Just because they didn't have to pay $25 a month, post a photo, write a profile and proceed to meet hundreds of people with whom they felt less chemistry than Dick Cheney and Barbra Streisand on a tunnel of love ride, must they rub their joy in our faces?

More and more singles are meeting via Internet dating sites. There's gotta be a reason for that.

And They Lived Happily Ever Apart

By Mark Miller
Published on November 4, 2004

Being together day after day for 14 years sadly lost its luster.

The Perfect Woman

By Mark Miller
Published on July 15, 2004

One of the greatest mysteries in my life, besides how to program my Tivo, is why it's taking me so long to meet my soulmate.

A Love Like Mime

By Mark Miller
Published on October 9, 2003

In my San Francisco days, I once had a brief romantic affair with a mime. I was living in a house with lots of bedrooms, which were rented out to many different people. One of them was her, Angie, a young woman who each day would leave the house, go down to the park and do her mime thing, collecting dollars in a hat. I would tease her and we would flirt.