We’re living in a world where a 31-year-old single woman in Los Angeles no longer has to feel any pressure to settle down and find her a husssssband. And I’ve got an even bigger excuse not to: I’ve been married twice. I already did that family thing. Now I’m out here making a career for myself, and trying to date at the same time.

As a very sexual, very driven, and sometimes mixed up woman who is hitting her dating life at the time that most people are coming out of it, I’m traversing a realm of experience—from 40-year-olds who want to look at my ass in an alley to 19-year-olds who eat a lunchable after sex, I’ve got a thing or two to share, and much more than that to learn.

So What Did We Learn? is my monthly look at my dating, love, and sex life past and present (not the future unless I get a bed/time machine, and the editor has not yet approved that item on my expense report). It’s sometimes funny, sometimes sad, and (fingers crossed) sometimes we’ll all learn something useful.