Divorce

This is when you know you have really MOVED to a new city-- when you have to find a doctor. More specifically, when you have to find a dentist because you have a throbbing toothache and your life long dentist is 300 miles away. (Actually,...

Now that I have lived in Chicago (my big new city) for seven months it is safe to tell you the “stuff” I know for sure…at least in the scope of being a 53-year-old-single-empty-nesting-mother-of-four who has ventured into dating absolute strangers I’ve met online. First, some...

One of the most unexpected surprises about relocating my 53 year old self to Chicago has been the random acts of kindness. Those acts include the new girlfriend fix up (you know… “Oh, you’ve moved to Chicago? You have to meet my friend so-and-so.”)  Sure,...