Table For One

The Joy of Taking Yourself Out to Dinner

For years, I treated restaurants like audition rooms. Every dinner was a chance to impress, perform, connect.
I’d scan the menu with one eye and the other on my date’s reaction.
Was I funny enough? Cool enough? Did I seem spontaneous but serious? Effortless but impressive?

There was always someone sitting across from me.
But rarely, if I'm being honest, someone I actually wanted to sit with.