Travel: San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Prioritizing travel over most everything else and a main reason we’re petless and kidless, we’ve traveled together since 2010. Taste-wise, I’m Four Seasons, he’s Motel 6; budget-wise, we’re somewhere in […]
GUEST POST — Travel: One is the Magic Number
This is a Guest Post by Cheese-It DeLonda Dowling. Or is it DeRhonda? Delores? Jane? (People butcher our names all the time. I often get “Sara” like I’ve misspelled my […]
Guest Post: The 4 Phases of Fear – The Summer I Saw Them All
This is a Guest Post by Heather whom I met when I coordinated a Saturday morning volunteer program via Chicago Cares. About fifteen to twenty of us would take a […]
Guest Post: When plans go to shit, create a story
I started a Party of One journey years ago, and while it’s changed in structure, I still wholeheartedly stand behind the thought that interacting with life as a party of one […]
Guest Post: What’s next? And what if what’s next isn’t what’s right?
Will I be happier elsewhere? Should I move? Where should I move? Should I change jobs? Where is this job going? What should I do if I’m fulfilled but… something’s […]
Recipe for a perfect Saturday Night
Holiday party in a neighborhood (Rogers Park) you don’t frequent and that’s a bit out of the normal radius which makes you feel adventurous and that you’re really going somewhere tonight […]
What a spontaneous eight days by myself in Mexico looks like
In January I decided for various reasons to head South, solo. A few weeks later, via the free ticket I had gotten in December by saying Hell yes! to […]
Have you let “but I’m single…” stop you?
I’ve always been interested in what we do and don’t do by ourselves and what factors factor into those decisions. Surprised and touched by all the positive responses to my […]
PARTY OF ONE: Why your password should be Iwilltr@velso1o
This is a Guest Post by Stacy Armistead. I got to know her over the years via her participation in the inaugural a capella Fear Experiment℠ group, as an Idea Potluck Dish, […]
Now THIS is how to be a Badass
This is a Guest Post by Elyse Brendlen. I first met Elyse when she was a camper at one of my Life of Yes℠ Sleepaway Camps (LOYSC) Summer 2013. A […]