About
Single for a Reason™ - A Photo/Video/Blog for Choosy People
When I was younger my friends and family said I was too choosy. As I got older and still hadn’t married, they began thinking my ex-boyfriends were the choosy ones. Now, at 63, they realize what readers of the blog should handily discover: solo living has its own charms as well as challenges, even though none are tax deductible.
Singledom is increasing along with the aging baby boomers. In 2005, it was estimated by the US Census that there were 89 million unmarried or single Americans and no one seems to market to us except hydraulic and enlargement specialists and, frankly, we’ve been there done that years ago and is the territory of other blogs.
In my former life I was a school psychologist and career counselor, speaker and freelance writer. Currently, I am a photographer and writer in search of the right potting soil.
If you don’t want to leave home, I am a good travel guide. Single people need to define a good time loosely.
I can find lost civilizations without a passport or photo ID. Here are a few entries that will give you a good idea of what this blog is about. I just go to the GROCERY STORE to experience technology and shame at the same time. ANTS ON PEONIES? Fascinating. I’m there–hovering. HD video recorder in hand. Makes me think of presidential politics. If you mess with my sandwich bread, I WRITE LETTERS TO BREAD PEOPLE. MODERN ART IN PARKING LOTS? Look on YOUTUBE, I’m there, too. Made me want to walk in industrial parks instead of going to the Museum of Modern Art. FIND IT IMPOSSIBLE TO OPEN A PACKAGE? Film it and realize that the terrorists really are winning. FEELING HOPELESS AND ALONE? I have an image for you that requires no explanation although I give one. Do you know a woman who won’t leave home without her make-up? HOW ABOUT IF THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE?
My podcasts are titled, “Waving or Drowning?™” and are available through ITUNES. They focus on the invisible people (you know who you are) in fiction as well as non-fiction stories and I tip my hat to Stevie Smith, the British Poet who wrote of being in water far too deep and far too cold for far to long, but when she lifts her arms to get help, people around her just think she’s waving “hello”.
This blog, “Single for a Reason™” is available on WordPress and at www.patcoakley.com . My YOUTUBE name is “w1kkp”, the ID of my father’s ham radio persona years and years ago when the world was flat and dinosaurs roared.
Thanks for visiting.
Email: pbc@patcoakley.com
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