I never paid much attention to Lady Gaga, but now she is doing a tour in South America and I am in Buenos Aires I started to read about the reaction to her here in magazines and wow–that woman is…
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A Review of Going Solo (and My Dream of Living in an Assisted Living Facility)
When I turned 33, a bunch of my friends got together in a huddle in a bar and talked about where we wanted to be in 30 years. Some people talked about traveling the world, another talked about having written…
Weighing in on the “extraordinary rise and surprising appeal of living alone”
I will be on KCRW’s national news affairs program “To the Point” tomorrow Wednesday 11-12 with sociologist and fellow examiner of the modern human condition Eric Klinenberg. We’ll be talking about his excellent book Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and…
Jane Fonda Is A Born-Again Quirkyalone
In my book Quirkyalone: A Manifesto for Uncompromising Romantics, I describe the two types of quirkyalones: there are womb quirkyalones, who pretty much knew they were quirkyalone since birth, and born-again quirkyalones who have an Aha moment later in life.…
Tagged with: born again quirkyalone, celebrities, Jane Fonda, quirkyalone
Posted in Movies, Personal Growth
Posted in Movies, Personal Growth
Quirkyalone Movie Alert: Ewan McGregor in Beginners
For those who ask, where are the men in the quirkyalone movement? Here’s a gorgeous, moving movie featuring a male quirkyalone lead (Ewan McGregor, beautifully vulnerable in the movie himself). Beginners weaves together two big qs: quirkyaloneness and queerness. Oliver…
Zeitgeist | Imaginary Bitches (A Review)
Choosing to remain single in a coupled world is sometimes a lonely gig, never more so than when all of your close friends are smugly cocooned in their couple-bubbles. It can make you feel like the last single person on…
Tagged with: all my children, ally mcbeal, dating, eden riegel, Friendship, humor, imaginary bitches, matrimania, movie, movies, Relationships, review, sex and the city, single life, Video, web series, year one
Posted in Books + Movies, Dating, Friendship, Movies, Relationships, Single Life
Posted in Books + Movies, Dating, Friendship, Movies, Relationships, Single Life
Zeitgeist | Defending Marriage . . . and Singledom
So . . . is it better to be married or single? It’s a ridiculous question, of course.
The name of the game is happiness. Fulfillment. Living an abundant life. For some people that means marriage, for others it means independence. A lucky few manage to create committed relationships that don’t require sacrificing essential parts of themselves, or (even better) that actively support the things they value most in themselves.
Tagged with: Aaron Traister, divorce, marriage, Relationships, Salon.com, Sandra Tsing Loh, singledom, singletons, The Atlantic
Posted in Books + Movies, Quirkytogether, Relationships, Single Life
Posted in Books + Movies, Quirkytogether, Relationships, Single Life
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A quirkyalone is a person who prefers being single to dating for the sake of dating.
It’s a mindset. Here's the manifesto
A quirkyalone is a person who prefers being single to dating for the sake of dating.
It’s a mindset. Here's the manifesto