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.-
2020 – Hindsight and the New Year
I don’t know how I managed to completely miss that at the end of this year, not only will it be a new year, but an entirely new DECADE. Where the hell have I been, and what the fuck have I been doing that I missed that memo? Oh, yeah, that’s right. My personal life had fallen apart and I have spent the last year rebuilding it from the ground up.
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Merry Christmas to Me – the Gift of Peace
There are many benefits to having older teens. First is that I no longer have to wake up at the butt crack of dawn on Christmas morning to open presents, or to do the “Christmas” thing.
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You Don’t Get To String Me Along
Is the ex trying to string me along? He is making confusing statements and promises that reek of lies and manipulations. Song lyrics help.
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Stress Eating My Emotional Abuse
La Llorona arrived for Christmas and I've been eating non-stop ever since. Emotional abuse and terrible coping mechanisms.
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I’m So Awkward
If I keep staring at this guy in the row ahead of me to my left at the game, does that mean I have a predilection to cougar-esque behavior?
