I don’t feel like I am sixty something, I feel like I am forty something. Except for one thing: the cumulative weight of all the…
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“I love you in my own way.” This is the horrible answer I received to the question I once asked a man – “Do you…
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I woke up this morning with a strange thought. What if I decided to be elegant? Maybe it’s that I’m swinging the other way after…
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Are you carrying a ring of keys that don’t belong to any doors? I was with someone for a quarter of a century. During that…
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When a long-term relationship is ending, life is a maze. Surrounded by walls we can’t see over becomes commonplace. Stressed about what’s around every future…
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“You think I’m not a goddess? Try me.” – From a poem by Margaret Atwood Now that you have been through the emotional wreckage of…
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In the ensuing years after a breakup, you get used to being alone. You become idiosyncratic. I don’t know if it’s from the pandemic or…
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Immediately after you are left, there are so many life choices in front of you, that it can be paralyzing. For me, it was like…
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