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Any Harry Potter fans out there? My children and I love the series, the characters, the theme parks, the movies… you get the idea. So last night, to celebrate JK Rowling’s birthday, we watched the...
View Articleback to the beginning?
Several weeks ago, I would have told you that the gentleman I’ve called Brad and I were on our way to a relationship. And now I’m not so sure… The two of us, as I’ve said, have potential: Such amazing...
View Articlemeeting more men
As I wrote about a couple of months ago in “licking my wounds,” I began online dating…again…and got a fair amount of attention right away. In person, I only ended up meeting two guys: One, incredibly...
View Articleparadise, part deux
In our early hours together on this adventure, we both brought up names of all the folks we knew near our destination, presumably to have the “out” of other companions or folks we might need to see (in...
View Articleback to reality
Lee and I woke up early on our final morning and went out for a brisk walk / run while it was still dark. Okay, actually, it happened more like this: I woke up around 5 a.m. not touching him and...
View Articlethat happy
If you had told me a year ago that I would soon fall for a short, bald, portly man who felt like sunshine, I would have called you crazy. But fall I did… for a man I refer to here as Lee. Even before...
View Articleowning my feelings, part 2
About six months ago, I wrote about taking ownership of my feelings and being responsible for how I felt in relationship to another. I wrote about how I had to shift my perspective to fully embrace a...
View Articlepast to possibility
And here is the biggest realization of all in all this reflection: There was an energy I felt; there was an energy from which I attracted; and there was an energy I was in that relationship. The...
View Articlecircling back
I’ve been single for the past seven months after a long-term relationship ended. For much of the time we were together, we talked about marriage. And, in the end, we never made those next steps — and...
View Articlebegin again
I started dating again…slowly. Lots of chatting through the apps for a couple of weeks, and then slowly getting out and meeting people. I guess “slowly” is relative, considering I’ve met five guys in...
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