Furniture shopping

A first: going into a furniture store alone
After a lovely happy hour with a friend yesterday, I decided to brave a new frontier – the furniture store. I only had one glass of wine so I figured it was safe.
Now, these can be pretty intimidating, even with a spouse. Not to mention overwhelming – the [...]

Snobbery, and a trip to the grocery store

Snobbery
I really never considered myself a snob. Well, much.
Hard reality: yesterday I had coffee with a really nice, highly intelligent man (we met on Brainiacdating.com – seriously). I was enjoying the conversation, even though I suspected that there is no possibility of more than coffee. He has an adult son with autism, and is pretty [...]

Half or whole?

I ran into an old acquaintance yesterday. As we caught up on the news of our families I braced myself for the inevitable, “and how’s your other half?”
Sure enough, standing among the new tires, sunroom salesmen and fresh baked goods at Sam’s Club, the question arose.
I replied that there was no other half any more [...]

Elul reflections

We are in the month of Elul, the last month of the Jewish calendar. As we prepare for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, we take time during Elul to reflect on the waning year and to prepare for the time of renewal that the High Holy Days bring.
As I reflect on the last year [...]

Update

Laura yelled at me because I haven’t been updating enough, so here you go . . .
I changed my JDate profile after my virtual meeting with E. I’ve emailed a few new men, but have had no responses. None! Sigh.
I was supposed to go to lunch with a nice man who I met on OKCupid [...]

Should I stay or should I go?

When Mr. Ex moved out I chose not to put the house on the market. Well, I chose not to, but I didn’t really have a choice. It was September, which, as a teacher, would have been torture. I can’t even imagine getting ready to sell a house at the beginning of the school year. [...]

Mother’s Day

A week or so ago my older daughter noted that was some kind of cruel joke that my first Mother’s Day as a separated person also fell on Mr. Ex’s 52nd birthday.
could it be worse?
Uh huh. My mother passed away early Wednesday morning after a battle with lung cancer. We were not unprepared, but you’re [...]

Know what I miss?

I miss restaurant-seeking. We ate out a lot as a couple and it was always an issue of “what can he eat?” As a vegetarian, it wasn’t easy for Mr. Ex to go into just any ol’ restaurant – no steak joints for him. So whenever we were going to the theater or traveling, I [...]

To be 16 again…

I’ve found the fountain of youth.
Seriously.
Wanna feel like an adolescent again?
Have your husband of 30 years leave you.
No kidding.
It puts you right back to being a high school junior and your boyfriend broke up with you the week before prom.
The angst, the agony, the blow to your self esteem.
I know what I’m talking about; I [...]

The Facebook Phenomenon, part one

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Okay. So I’m on Facebook. I actually have been for quite some time – longer than most of my peers in my age group (the old people, I guess). Not nearly as long as my recent college-graduate daughter, of course. I initially signed on so that I could see her photos (because a [...]