Vacation Ideas for Singles?
A reader whose name you may recognize from our discussions, Wiebes, would love to hear your answers to his question. He wants to go on a vacation on his own,…
Year, Interrupted: Guest Post by Psyngle (Part 2)
[From Bella: Over at Living Single, I posted the first part of Psyngle’s story of her traumatic accident and inspiring recovery. This is Part 2.]
A Story About a Tribe Should Not End with a Couple in a Hot Tub
Knowing my interest in different kinds of personal communities, a friend recently gave me a copy of Isabel Allende’s 2008 memoir, The Sum of Our Days. She thought I would…
Before and Beyond the White Picket Fence
Having just finished a draft of a chapter on singles-friendly workplaces, I’m back to thinking about family in the lives of singles who have no children. Family, in the contemporary…
Scenes from a Wedding
I don’t usually like weddings. I know – you are shocked, shocked to hear that! Earlier this month, though, I went to a wedding that was actually a wonderfully pleasant…
On Not Growing Old Alone
You know that scare story about how if you are single, you will grow old alone? My fear is that I WON’T grow old alone! I don’t mean that I…
Next Up: Emotional Independence
In a recent post over at Living Single, I reviewed Rachel Moran’s argument that second-wave feminism had forgotten the single woman. The focus, instead, was largely on the superwoman who…
Spending Time Alone, Poetically and Without Apology
I bet some of you have already seen this video, How to Be Alone, a video poem by Canadian singer-songwriter Tanya Davis. It already has nearly a million views on…