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The Importance of the First Date?

CNN recently interview our First Lady-to-be, and asked her about her first date with Barack Obama. What a first date! A visit to the Art Institute of Chicago, a stroll down Michigan Ave, an artsy/cultural film, and drinks atop the John Hancock building. I am very fortunate to have experienced all four, and let me tell you that if given the choice, this would've been my ideal first date. (Well, aside from a visit to a Broadway musical. But that's being nit-picky.) I thought back to my first date with J, and I have to admit that it was nowhere near as spectacular. In fact, neither of us can recall a first date, because we had been best friends for months beforehand. I...

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