Single Life

Years ago, I had unknowingly placed a limit on my travel experience potential based on my relationship status. I told myself and others that I was going to wait until I was married to travel overseas. I was “saving” bigger travel expeditions as an opportunity to make memories with my future husband. While this may have seemed like a noble,…

My book club is reading Waiting to Exhale for our January meeting. It’s a busy month with birthdays, work holiday parties, Christmas and New Year’s so many of us don’t have time to read a deep, long novel. We wanted to keep things light and continue the discussion around how black women are the greatest beings in the world. I…

Earlier this year, I was catching up with an old friend and explained how I had not gone on a decent date in forever. His first response was, “Wow, what’s that like?” I paused before answering because I didn’t quite have the words to explain. I normally get emotional when I discuss my outlook on dating. It often feels like…

It’s a fall evening and a slight chill is in the air. The weather has officially begun to turn cooler. and the sun is setting earlier. Perhaps it’s a Friday or Saturday and you just happened to be chilling at home, minding your own business. You wouldn’t mind sipping on some hot cocoa and curling up on the couch to…

Whenever dating becomes a topic of conversation, a popular question that often arises is, “are you open to dating outside your race?” The answer to that is YES. However, I just don’t know if I’m any good at it. I’ve dibble-dabbled in interracial dating in the past, but it didn’t go so well. First, there was my experience with a…

During a recent hotel stay, I was taking advantage of real cable by flipping through the channels and saw that reruns of Sex in the City were showing all evening. All the nostalgia of watching Sex and the City during and after my college years came back. Some of my sorority sisters and I would head to the house who…

I promise I wasn’t snooping. I was perusing my favorite bookstore when I overheard a conversation between two young ladies at the end of the same aisle I was on. I heard snippets about the odds of running into one another at the bookstore, mutual college friends, plans for the summer and a break in a relationship. That’s when my ears…

*Singing* It’s hard out here for a pimp . . . No, it’s hard out here for a single woman. Especially this one, who somehow found herself on a date with a married man. Let me start from the beginning . . . It was a sunny Saturday and I was grabbing brunch after a run. I decided to stop…

“Have you considered freezing your eggs?” I heard the stool roll across the floor then saw her head tilt to the right so she could talk with me face to face. Wait a minute. Shouldn’t this be a formal conversation? I mean, my feet are still propped up in stirrups and my privates are out in the open. I’m not…

The “new year, new me” gym crowd has started to disappear more and more now that we’re going into month three of 2018. I’m no longer searching for a mat to finish stretching because they are all taken and I also don’t have to circle the parking lot multiple times in search of a parking space. Last week, shortly after…