Yenta (YEN-tah) is a Yiddish word referring to a Busybody woman, a woman who passionately runs around chatting with people to make matches. Most definitions refer to it as a gossipy woman a woman with a big mouth. A woman not afraid to talk to anyone for her goal of making matches. It was also the name of the matchmaker in the Broadway musical "Fiddler on the Roof".

Meet Nina, a modern day Yenta.

I used to work at the Matchmaker Dating Service. It was outrageously successful. When they closed their doors, it broke my heart. They just couldn't compete with all the online dating web sites.

So where does an individual go to find love and/or companionship? Good question. Never would I knock the dating web sites. I have met many a qualified candidate on the Internet and through personal ads. Personal ads are history. Too outdated, no picture, too long to wait for a response. No clue if candidates portrayed their qualifications accurately. But they worked for me, on more than one occasion. Yet, logically, my heart and my head say that sitting in my home and traveling down the Internet road to love is not enough.
 
Interaction at singles events and social gatherings also needs to play a part in the all-important love search. Houston has more than its share of men and women who have hurdled their thirties and forties and are still longing for some sort of romantic entanglement. Be it serious or casual, most people want companionship of some sort. So where do we turn, what do we do? If only I had the answer to that million-dollar question!

It gives me great pleasure to know that I had a hand in helping someone meet someone else with which to live happily ever after. It's like hitting the jackpot, in my eyes. I will continue to believe that my place in this world is to help people find each other. Clearly I would have been a yenta had I been born longer ago.

I will never surrender my title as Romance Director/Goddess of Love, and I will never give up trying to match people up. I clearly believe it takes a little of this, a lot of that, and a true never-ending faith that there is more than one person out there in the world that could be your soul mate. If I can play a part in helping you find that person, I'm going to take a stab at it.

I say love is out there! In fact, it is everywhere we look; the grocery store, the mall, the park, the Houston Single Source events, or the dry cleaners. Have you ever read the crossed wires section of the Houston Press? I often think to myself, how sad that they did not just go and say hi to the person that they saw at the pizza joint, or the grocery store. What a missed opportunity that was.

I promise you, clearly none of your limbs will fall off if you approach someone and they are not receptive to your kind gesture. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. As always, you can contact me 713-530-2509 or email me at nina@yentagirl.com .

Check out my website at http://www.yentagirl.com  .