Flying Solo Near 60: Guest Post by Jacqueline Marshall
Sitting in my favorite chair, sipping a cup of dark roast, I realized my 59th birthday is three months away. After a moment of terror, I fell into thinking about…
It Is Happening – Please Share Your Thoughts!
What’s happening? Two things – National Singles Week (Sunday September 18 – Saturday September 24) and the new website that will aggregate feeds from enlightened singles blogs, provide resources, and…
Ousted by Gossip? Divorced Women Called ‘Unleashed Dogs’
A reader sent me this story (below) and agreed to let me share it with you as long as I omitted identifying information. Any suggestions?
Possible TV Docuseries on Single Women: Want to Participate?
There is a possible television documentary series about single women in the works. If it happens, it will air during Women’s History Month. The series will be based on Nika…
SINGLISM Is Published!
“All Things Single” readers, I’m blogging to you first. My new book, Singlism: What It Is, Why It Matterse, and How to Stop It – written together with 28 other…
No Wedding Band? Then It’s OK to Get Killed
I just watched an episode of the TV show, Chicago Code. I wasn’t finding it all that interesting and should have just turned it off, but I got the impression…
A Pioneering Woman Whose Husband Got the First Paragraph of Her Obituary
When I started high school in 1967, the principal was a no-nonsense woman named Eugenia DeFazio. Mrs. DeFazio, as we all called her, had already been the principal for 7…
Politically, I am Passionate and Ambivalent
Although I only occasionally address political issues head-on here or at Living Single, it is probably apparent to regular readers that I’m a lefty – Democrat, liberal, progressive – call…
‘Put Down That Mommy Card,’ Post Writer Tells Oklahoma Candidate
Quick follow-up to my most recent post here (“Candidate claims she is superior because she is a mother”). Washington Post opinion writer Ruth Marcus just published a piece titled, “With…