Relationships
A collection of posts on relationships: love of self, a partner, a friend, or family and how these things are expressed
A New Dating and Relationship Podcast Just for You: Happy Hour Husband Hunting
It all started when my fellow 40-ish never married childfree Black single friend Kina asked out of the blue, how about we do a dating and relationship podcast? My response, why not? Months prior we decided to be alittle more proactive in our search for…
Right Now, I’m Loving (No. 1): From tiny desk concerts to the Celebration of Black Love
Hey there! Starting a new (Saturday) series called “Right Now, I’m Loving”, a revival of sorts of a blog series I did when I was film writing many years back. It’s a list of all the things that have garnered my attention (and devotion) in…
Do You Regularly Hug Your Friends?
Where do you stand on regularly hugging your friends? I grew up in a family where regular hugging was not the norm. A highly affectionate family we were not, which of course, stayed with me as I got older. It was not until I left…
7 Date Questions You Can Ask On Date Night
I’ve been single for most of my adult life so I have mixed feelings about the whole dating thing – excitement that there might just be a perfect imperfect “soulmate” out there for me with perfect answers to my date questions that I stumble upon…
A Sensual Poem: may i feel said he
One of my favorite poems is from ee cummings (I love to stylize phrases with using all lowercase so I always liked the look of this poems) called may i feel said he, published in his 1935 collection of work No Thanks. It has been written that may I…
Childless, Dreaming, and Uncertain Of Wanting Motherhood
I’m a almost 39-year old unmarried (gasp!) woman who is childless (double gasp!). My biological clock is ticking along, and I just shrug and go about my business. There was a time in my pre-teen to teenager years when I couldn’t imagine my future without…