
The Sober Widow: Procrastination
As I’ve shared, I recently took Introduction to Psychology at a local university because I never took it in college, and I’d been very curious about it. One...

The Sober Widow: The power of friendship
They say that friends are the family you choose, and I believe that’s true. Even if you have a wonderful family (which I do), you still get to choose who you surround...

The Sober Widow: The impact of obesity
For the past seven weeks, I’ve been taking a psychology course at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU). It’s a lot more work than I counted on, but I’ve...

The Sober Widow: The art of hospitality
I read a few advice columns every day, mostly for entertainment. Oh, the drama! Fights among family, evil stepmothers and siblings, who should pay on a date –...

The Sober Widow: Music hath charms…
When my niece Abbey was a tween, we used to play “Would You Rather.” The questions were fairly tame due to her age, with things like “would you rather wear...

The Sober Widow: Navigating life as a widow(er)
As married people know, there’s no manual for how to be married. You meet someone, you fall in love, you decide you can’t live without this person and then –...

The Sober Window: The Cost of an Affair
By now, the entire world has seen the footage of “Kiss Cam-gate,” in which Astronomer CEO Andy Byron was shown with his arms around the company’s Human Resources...

The Sober Widow: A little on the trashy side
The title is from a great song by the country artist Jerry Jeff Walker, and I keep singing it in my head during this trashy period in Marblehead. First, let’s...

The Sober Widow: The benefits of getting older
Did you know that every day, an average of 11,400 people turn 65 in the USA? And in Marblehead, about one-third of the population is 60 or older? For many of us...

The Sober Widow: Storytime
As we all know, people who avail themselves of DNA analysis through sites like Ancestry DNA or 23 and Me sometimes discover way more information than they were seeking,...
