From what she can see, single men and women—especially of a certain age— are expected to betray no interest whatsoever in romance, says commentator Linda McCullough Moore. At 67, Moore, a writer in western Massachusetts, disagrees. “… we do pretend, but left to our own devices, as we are—more than is likely good—we troll senior dating websites, emailing, chatting on the phone, imagining if a man is conversant with both Gertrude Stein and Ignatius Loyola, he might be someone fun to bowl with, someone to come running next time a squirrel falls down the chimney.”