Living Single
Living the single life: single parent, single mom, just plain single.
What nobody tells you about being single in your 40s — the freedom is real, the loneliness is also real, and the dating landscape is a special kind of hellscape that deserves its own category. Essays on solo living, social dynamics, the particular exhaustion of swiping, and learning to be your own person after years of defining yourself in relation to someone else.-
Back in the Emotional Support Saddle Again
Once again, I am back in the saddle of playing emotional support person for my good friend X. Will he never learn?
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The Hazards of Doom-Scrolling
My doom-scroll trip ended nowhere but in misery. Come along for the ride down trauma memory lane.
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The Competency Profile – It’s All In My head Maybe
I have a type: competence. There's a contractor who comes into my job who is good-looking, smart, and capable, and I have completely sabotaged any chance by talking about my work schedule.
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Party of One – Swiping Left on a Social Life
If my life was a Romantic Comedy, when my friend said to me that I needed to get out there and she was going to help me do it, there would have been a montage showing the creation of a dating profile and possibly a makeover. However, my life is not a RomCom, so none of that happened.
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Alone versus Lonely
If there is one thought that has been lingering on my mind over the last several weeks is the pros and cons of remaining alone. Sometimes I wonder if I am just making a martyr of myself post-divorce, or if I am truly meant to walk the earth a lone wolf.
