Tag: marriage

“In Love” Doesn’t Last. Fact. (Comforting fact).

We all know what being “in love” is all about. It makes the world go round, after all. There are lots of songs telling us so. It involves floating on a happy cloud, unable to focus on anything, wanting spontaneously to break into dance or song. Nothing matters but...

The Second Shift is Still Mine

Since the pandemic hit, I have been working from home a whole lot more. Well, no. What’s new is me working from home, full stop.  Before Covid-19 stopped the world in its tracks, I worked from one of my firm’s 4 offices for every single day of the working...

Life Looks Better from Up High

I’m not having the easiest time right now. Nothing serious; nothing life-changing or worth complaining about. Just the usual perfect stress-storm that whips through a life every few months or years, the pesky combination of factors that sometimes align in just such a way as to be a bit too much...

Regrets? I’ve had more than a few

I’ve been thinking about the idea of regret a lot lately. Because of my age, my peers who do not have children are in the “now or never” phase of their lives, so I am privy lately to a lot of the intense debate between child-free women and those...

Four Decades

Forty. It has happened. I can’t quite believe I’m this…old. (I know it’s not actually old). Nevertheless, here I am. I’ve had four whole decades of living inside my own head, which — I won’t lie — is quite an exhausting place to be, at times. Here are ten...