Keeping the Dream Alive

When I was in my late 20s and early 30s I had a blog called Keeping the Dream Alive. Most of my friends were settling down and having kids and buying houses and I was building a career and living the single life in a different city and different time zone then all of them. It was a pseudo anonymous blog subtitled adventures of a single girl that friends knew was me and others in the blog-o-sphere did not. I wrote about my adventures with parties, dates, friends, and a little work. It was a great way to keep in touch with a number of folks and to share my adventures and get a thrill from strangers wanting to follow and comment on my life. 

 Now, almost 20 years later, I find myself single again, but under very different circumstances. Like my friends in the early 2000s, I now have kids, a mortgage, and continue to have a successful career; unlike some of them, I am no longer in a relationship. In the last year my partner of more than 10 years and I decided to end our romantic relationship and to stop living together. It has been a big change for all of us - moving, setting a schedule, learning how to navigate this new reality - and now, almost a year later I think I am almost ready to jump back into the world of dating and generally start a more exciting life for myself. 

It is being on this precipice that brought me back to my old blog and ultimately back here to my computer to start writing about my life again. I am sure that I will not be as adventurous as I was back then, but I am determined to rekindle some of that spark that has been smothered for the last number of months under the weight of this change and all of life’s responsibilities that come with this age and stage in life. 

So, here we go, The Single Girl, or TSG, is back on the town and ready to share her adventures.

Wish Me Luck!