This whole new world of online dating creates concerns we’ve never had before, from which photo to use, to what to write, to how much information to share online. I want to help, so I’ve put together some advice based on my experiences.
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After a few months’ absence from blogging, I return with a blog about blogging. (It’s like the Seinfeld episode where Kramer decides to write a coffee table book about coffee tables.) In actuality, this blog isn’t just a recursive meta mind twist, it’s more about why and how we do what we do and why we’re even doing it. Which is why I stopped blogging for awhile.
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Punta Mita, Mexico for some sun. Copenhagen for Christmas, New Year’s in Lisbon and a bonus trip to Malmo, Sweden to visit a mime. These are the places I traveled over the holidays, motivated by a personal challenge that in three weeks I should travel solo to three new places I’ve never been.
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“$25 for your G string?” My daughter giggles and I shoot her some side eye. We are FaceTiming her teacher because on the eve of the holiday recital, the G string on her violin has broken. Of course I have no replacement.
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The holidays can be emotionally loaded for everyone, but maybe a little more for divorced families. It can be a painful reminder of what has been lost, who isn’t around the table, all of the changes and new schedules enacted.
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There was the patent lawyer who claimed to have ESP. He could read minds and knew exactly when people were thinking of him. Animals, too, wolves, particularly.
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Yeah, I know, you’re not supposed to use food for solace or a substitute for love. But this foolproof recipe might take the edge off of reading countless, heartbreaking stories of sexual assault and harassment arising from the Harvey Weinstein scandal.
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Just about drove off the highway. I ask the girl child what she learned at school today and instead of the typical “nothing” and an eye roll, she actually had an answer: “How to apologize.” “What class is this?” I ask, and my daughter tells me that her middle school hit the pause button on the traditional curriculum for a day to focus on skills and ideas that the kids will use for a lifetime.
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It’s summertime and surf camp pick up. My pre-teen daughter, Evie, is being chased around our car by a boy in a superhero cape and swim trunks. She runs clockwise, the boy, the opposite direction, ready to catch her.
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The year I turned forty I was married, living in Bermuda, a stay-at-home mother to my four-year old daughter. One morning I got out of the shower and noticed a strange, wide lump along my ribcage, snaking into my shoulder.
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