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Maura Kelly chats with Karen Salmansohn, a life coach and the best-selling author of "How to Be Happy, Dammit," to ask her for some tips on how to boost my own ego. Here's what she had to say ... TIP #1: THINK OF YOUR PAST (HAPPY) RELATIONSHIPS AND YOUR FAVORITE FLIRTATIONS ME: The thought that defeats me when I try to flirt with a stranger is this: Why would any cute guy at a party or bar--or my novelist crush--want to talk to me when he could be talking to someone younger? Or prettier? KAREN: Slap, slap! Maura! It’s time to pour yourself a cocky-tail! You need to get high on you. Remind yourself of the times when different guys have approached you or hit on you—they’ve wanted to talk to you, haven’t they? Read More »

The other night, I was hanging out with a new friend (who shall, for the time being, remain nameless). I'd stopped by his place because I happened to be in his neighborhood, and we hung out for a while, talking about Faulkner. Or rather he talked about Faulkner, and I listened in rapt amazement to his brilliance. But he also drank like Faulkner; I think he was a little drunk when I arrived, and he proceeded to have maybe two or three more whiskeys in my presence. So, not surprisingly, the conversation eventually became a little flirty. And — when I stood up to get myself a glass of water — my new friend said, "Wait a second ... turn around. You know what? I'm really good at this: I bet I could guess your weight within five pounds. Want to wager on it?" I declined, saying, "If you guess wrong, and too high, my self-esteem could be, like, permanently ruined." He replied, "Oh, come on. There's nothing wrong with you. You have a perfectly fantastic athletic body." Athletic!?!? He consciously chose NOT to say thin. Instead, he said athletic. Which means muscular. Which means thick. Which is as good as saying fat! Which brings me to my first point ... Read More »

Resident dating blogger, Maura Kelly interviewed Jack Murnighan, editor-at-large for Nerve.com, author of a new book called Beowulf on the Beach: What to Love and What to Skip in Literature's 50 Greatest Hits; and, last but not least, a primo flirt on how to use books to flirt. Read his tips below: Read More »