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CHAPTER 6

Rosie moved first. She always did.

A brush of fur against Alex’s leg. A quiet weight beside her. Not a command, not even a nudge, just the steady presence of a creature who had never once left her.…

CHAPTER FIVE

She could handle being alone; she’d been doing it her whole life. What she couldn’t handle was being seen in it. Rosie was the only one she trusted without hesitation, the only presence that had never wavered. But …

Alex cleared her throat, brushing a leaf from her sleeve as if that might restore some sense of normalcy. “I’m not on some quest,” she said, too casually. “I was looking for Rosie. Miss Independent, as I sometimes call her.”…

LAST NIGHT I HAD THE STRANGEST DREAM

 

It arrived like a messenger with mismatched shoes, humming an old pop song, and carrying a message I didn’t know I needed yet.

 

I was walking through the first house I …

It’s Wednesday morning, and the news is full of warnings about the polar vortex barreling toward most of the country — including Greenville, SC. The kind of cold that makes you rethink every plan, every errand, every piece of food …

As the year comes to a close, I’m resisting the urge to summarize it neatly. This hasn’t been a year that fits into clean conclusions. It’s been a year of reworking, replanning, and re-seeing — and, at times, being forced …

Let me just say it:
Dating after 60 is like rummaging through a garage sale and hoping to find Fabergé.

We’re not out here looking for Prince Charming, we just want someone who isn’t charming his dentures out of a …

There’s been a shift. Maybe you’ve noticed.

A different rhythm in the words. A slightly adjusted voice. A change.

That’s what happens when we evolve. When we let other tools into our toolbox, when we find new ways to say …

I didn’t storm out. I didn’t make a scene. I just left—and I didn’t look back.

There’s a particular kind of loneliness that comes from being surrounded by people and still feeling unseen. I was in a group of women

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Life, in its overall form, is not cruel, and testing us is done more to reveal something in us that we did not know was there.

We summon up strengths we did not know we had and set boundaries we

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