Don’t Ever Let Your Heart Get Hardened

Don't let your heart get hardened - image of heart wrapped in steel

Have you ever had a song, one that you haven’t heard in years, just start playing in your head?  It happened to me the other day, and I realized I was actually singing it softly to myself. It was a song that used to be one of my favorites back in my single days, and [...]

3 Steps to Bring Passion into Your Life

Smiling Woman with Twinkling Eyes that is living her passion

A few weeks back I wrote a post about loving your life by always finding time to do what you love.  Today we’re going to go into that a little deeper, because it’s such an important topic.  Bringing love into your life starts with you – and it starts with loving your life. And what [...]

Everything Changes

Everything Changes - Springtime Cherry Blossoms

I just revisited my hometown for the first time in over seven years.  I haven’t been back since before my children were born, but the memories that came up for me brought it all back as if I had just been there yesterday. The sights, the sounds, the scents, the feelings, the emotions.  The memories [...]

4 Signs Your First Date with Him Should be Your last

Woman grimacing on a bad first date

All relationships have to start somewhere – and that somewhere, most of the time, is on a first date.  So how do we know after that first date if the guy is deserving of our company for date number two?  Well, there are several ways. I’ve heard of women who will give their date a [...]

To Love is to Risk

To Love is to Risk (Risk Ahead Sign on road)

Some correspondence I had with a reader last week got me to thinking about how life is really all about taking risks.  And how anything worth having usually requires risking something of ourselves.  Like love.  Especially when we’re talking about love in the truest sense of the word. Because when we put ourselves out there [...]

Dress Rehearsal

Dating is the dress rehearsal for marriage

I remember how sad I was when I first heard the news from my best friend.  She told me she was getting divorced. You might remember her – she was my married friend who I, single and so very alone, would often spend Christmas with, wishing I had her perfect life.  Her life so complete, [...]

How Doing ONE Thing Differently Can Bring LOVE Into Your Life

Love Your Life - Happy Smiling Beautiful Woman

I’ve learned many things since my single days.  Some are things that I regret doing and wish that I had done differently, and some are things that I regret not doing in the first place.  It’s this second group that leaves your body aching with the painful regret of missed opportunities, of what could have [...]

The Absolute Best Place to Meet Mr. Right

Miami South Beach Art Deco District at Night

We've all read articles or heard about the supposedly great places to meet men – places like the gym, the supermarket, the dog park, and of course the age old meeting place, the bar. In my dating days, if I saw one of these lists with something on there I hadn’t tried yet I immediately [...]