Carolyn Lee Arnold drew upon her thirty years as a social science researcher and ten years as a relationship workshop assistant to create the dating project in FIFTY FIRST DATES AFTER FIFTY: A MEMOIR. A native Californian from Los Angeles with a New England education, Carolyn found her true home in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she prepared for dating and life by working in free clinics, attending spiritual ceremonies, hiking the local green hills, leading women’s backpacking trips, identifying as a lesbian-feminist in the 1970s and ’80s, and earning graduate degrees in women’s studies, statistics, and educational research.

FIFTY FIRST DATES AFTER FIFTY is her first book, and it has received awards in the areas of relationships, sexuality, and women’s issues and for being inspirational, uplifting, and motivational. She is now writing her second memoir, about her lesbian-feminist years. Still a feminist, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her male partner, one of her fifty dates. She blogs about dating and life and offers dating tips, dating resources, and her book at her website, carolynleearnold.com. If you sign up for her blog, you will get the detailed version of Carolyn’s 10 dating tips! Follow her on Instagram (@carolyn.lee.arnold) and Facebook.