The Human side of Humanity

 Good day readers and followers.  Pandemic depression has gotten many of us down.  I like to laugh and as my friends know, when I do it registers on the Richter scale.  I'm neither shy nor embarrassed by it.  One former colleague infamously said that I should laugh "quieter" especially on a date or I would scare the woman away.  Whatever.  I'm loud, boisterous and sarcastic.  Here in 2021 I have started piecing together excerpts from my former blog that was called E-Dating and the New Reality.  As I mentioned last week, while the e-dating reality wasn't much fun at the time, it sure was better than putting on a mask and walking around with hand sanitizer.  Most of us couldn't even imagine dating anyone right now.  However, in reading back some of those pieces from the blog I ended four years ago made me laugh out loud.  Sometimes at my own expense.  I am sharing some excerpts that others enjoyed all the way back in 2016-17...

Once upon time I did an evaluation of two different groups in the spectrum of people that reach a certain age, look in the mirror an wonder. So in my retrospective mood we will take a travel back in time.  They wonder about how they have arrived at this point in their lives and how to change it.  Usually they want to change it in a hurry, but life doesn't work that way for most of us.  Both arrive looking for someone to share time, a mate, a date, significant other-whatever you want to call them.  The Always-Been-Single (ABSs) crowd are a curious bunch, particularly those in their mid to late 40's or 50's.  This can be a point of wonderment or concern.  The ABS crew is not for me. I have a preference for someone who has been married, whether divorced or unfortunately widowed.  Additionally, someone who has children.  I am not alone in that preference amongst my now divorced or widowed crowd. We are the DWC's (Divorced/Widowed w Children). The life...

Good day readers and followers.  Here we are in 2021.  Year two of the pandemic has officially started here in the USA.  Masks, staying apart...far apart.  Yes, here we are staying far apart and I am still single. STIILLLLLLL single.  I used to write a blog about my dating travails, mostly on the challenges of e-dating.  Now virtual dating would be almost the only thing I would want to do.  I was able to go back and look at some of what challenged me and made my readers laugh. The fun part was reading what the actual reality was before the lockdown, the six-feet-apart, wear your mask, wash your hands reality.  The blog was called E-dating and the New Reality.  Looking back, I would love that to be the current reality. Around Christmastime back in 2016 I wrote a piece that could not happen now.  There is almost no indoor dining, no hanging out-and I wouldn't want to anyway. I wrote an observational piece that had the word breast in the ti...

 Hello my followers and readers, 'tis a sad day to be writing for the first time in the new year.  In 2021.  As 2020 faded and ended with the release and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines the world seemed to be on an upswing.  Here in the USA, there was still much turmoil around the President and many of his supporters who would not accept the fact that he lost the election.  The danger in his  histrionic behavior was apparent to many free thinking intelligent people- so many of whom had supported him in the past or voted for him. In full disclosure, I am not one of them.  As I've mentioned in so many other pieces, the US is hamstrung by an outdated thought process that we must really limit ourselves to only two political parties. While I freely admit to being a member of the US Republican party, I would prefer to be independent except that it would take away my privilege to participate in the primary elections on every level.  Vote for everything...