What Makes a Place a Good Place for Living Single?
Every so often, someone publishes one of those predictable “best places to be single” stories. They are always the same – they are not about places for people who want to live their single lives, but...
View ArticleFantasies about Supporting Single People and Singles Advocacy
Writing about singles has been an enormously meaningful experience, but it has not been a lucrative one. I’ve had fantasies about making a mint on Singled Out or Singlism or from blogging. Not gonna...
View ArticleMy No Good, Very Bad 4th of July from the Past
Back during my East Coast days, there was a year when a colleague invited me to go to her daughter’s play on the 4th of July. I don’t like doing that sort of thing all the time, but I do enjoy kids’...
View ArticleSingles Who Want to Stay Single: Where Do We Find Social Support?
A reader who is single and not looking to become unsingle asked me a simple question that, to me, does not seem to have a simple answer: Where can he go for social support? The reader is a gay man...
View ArticleSingle in the Navy, Part 1: Guest Post by Roger Morris
[Bella’s intro: Recently, a retired Navy veteran, Roger Morris, wrote to say that while he believed there was some singlism in the Navy, he also thought there were advantages to being a Navy single. I...
View ArticleSingle in the Navy, Part 2: Guest Post by Roger Morris
[Bella’s intro: If you have not yet read Part 1 from guest blogger and Navy veteran Roger Morris, you can find it here. Now, on to Part 2 and the conclusions, with my thanks to Roger Morris!]...
View ArticleWhat I’m Up to These Days
In January 2010, I wrote a post for my Living Single blog called Not going nuclear: So many ways to live and love. In it, I wondered about a fundamental question of our lives – how do we choose to...
View ArticleNew Book Project Is On!
Last January was when I first decided, with lots of input from my agent, on the theme of my new book project. It is about the many creative ways that we are living now that Americans are spending more...
View ArticleHow We Live Now: Here Are Some Innovative 21st Century Living Arrangements
My most extensive writing on how we live now is in the book by the same name, How We Live Now: Redefining Home and Family in the 21st Century. That book has been named as one of the 12 Nonfiction Books...
View ArticleWhat Does a Cohousing Community Look Like?
Over at my Living Single blog at Psychology Today, I wrote a post about my recent visit to the Bellingham cohousing community, and along the way, described the notion of cohousing. Take a look at that...
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