Editor’s Note: Chenango County’s favorite best-selling author Maggie Shayne joins the ranks of Evening Sun contributors this week with an au courant advice column that’s just a tad different than ‘Dear Abby.’

Whether it’s relationship guidance, tips on modern romance or just throwing her two cents in, Maggie’s got an answer for everything in “Shayne on You.”

Dear Maggie,

I’m a 40-something, white divorcee who is thinking about perhaps trying to date again. My problem is this: I never was one for the bar scenes, and am certainly not for them now, so where/how do I meet men in a small, midwestern city?

Wondering

Dear Wondering,

The only place to find a perfect man is in the pages of a romance novel, where the men are created by women for women. But maybe I can help you come close.

Unless you’re looking for a one night stand, or to wake up in Mr. Wrong’s apartment (which is probably a bedroom at his mom’s house) you should skip the bar scene.