Dana Norris is the founder and host of Story Club. She once went on 71 internet dates. “Wanna go to a hot cop party?” I get this text in the middle of the day from Sara, a good friend of mine who’s been married since she was 23, loves my dating stories the most, and […]
Dana Norris is the founder and host of Story Club. She once went on 71 internet dates. I decide to run some stats on my dating life. Number of men I have dated so far: 21 Number of second dates: 4, or 19% Number of third dates: 2, or 9.5% Number of men I wanted […]
There is something daunting about publicly claiming an achievement, parenthood, that isn’t actually yours yet, says mom-to-be Dana Norris. I’m five months pregnant. My uterus has grown to the point that anyone who looks at me can tell that I am with child. I’ve told everyone that I see in person on a regular basis […]
Dana Norris is the founder of Story Club and she once went on 71 Internet dates. It’s a Friday night and I’m excited because 1) I’m going to my friend Josh’s birthday party and 2) my rash is much better. I originally noticed the rash a week ago, when I was doing my laundry at […]
Dana Norris is the founder of Story Club. She once went on 71 internet dates. I sign up for speed dating because it makes me incredibly nervous. Talk to a bunch of strange men for two hours while they judge you? Sounds like a form of punishment. But I’m getting too comfortable spending most evenings […]
Dana Norris is the founder/host of Story Club, a monthly storytelling show in Chicago. She once went on 71 internet dates. This was not one of them. I receive a friend request from a mystery man on Facebook and I’m intrigued. The guy lives in the town where I went to college, is around my […]
Dana Norris is the founder of Story Club and she once went on 71 internet dates. I go on two dates in two weeks. I meet both men via Match.com. Both have vaguely amusing profiles and are smiling in their pictures, which is harder to find than you’d think. I meet them both at the […]
Dana Norris is the founder and host of Story Club. She once went on 71 Internet dates. This was not one of them. I wake up feeling amazing. It’s a Saturday morning in May and I feel the kind of amazing that’s only possible after you’ve woken up feeling terrible every day for eight consecutive months. […]
Dana Norris is the founder of Story Club. She once went on 71 Internet dates. This was one of them. Patrick and I have gone on two dates and one late night train ride full of Libertarian tirades and I am digging this guy. We’ve spent upwards of 20 hours on the phone together, he’s […]
Dana Norris went on 71 Internet dates. This was one of them. (You can find some of her previous dates in this series here, here and here.) So I go home with this guy named Patrick because he’s cute and it’s late and riding the train out to his suburban apartment seems easier than waiting for […]
Originally appeared at In Our Words. Republished here with permission. Dana Norris once went on 71 Internet dates. This was one of them. It’s 1am on a Sunday morning and I’m on an L platform with a man named Patrick. We aren’t on a date, exactly, but we’ve been on a date before, just earlier […]
This originally appeared on Dana Norris’s website. Republished here with permission. To the guy who rode past me on his bicycle last night telling me to “Smile, pretty lady,” here’s what you need to know: 1) I don’t take orders from you. 2) I’m not going to smile just because you tell me to “smile.” […]
