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The Holidays in Widowland: on the Huffington Post
In the two and a half years since my husband died, I thought I’d feel better about my life without him. But I don’t. Especially during the holiday season when I feel my loss even more piercingly than usual. And
Question Four: Why Can’t He Get a Second Date
Today’s Question reads: Hi Debbie, Thank you for your candidness and the humor in your postings. My question for you is about dating, or at times, the lack of dates. I use online services (Match, PoF, et al) regularly to
Question Three: Is Dating a Widow a Losing Proposition?
Quinn asks: “Dating a widow. I always felt that since the relationship never ended with a ‘break up’ that there was no real closure, and therefore the presence of the significant other would persist indefinitely. Is that true? How’s a
Free Advice Two: Should I tell him I love him?
Dear HW, I have been dating long distance for a year now. Him and I are very happy together and make it work as best we can. We started as friends with benefits and our relationship and feelings towards
Ist Question: DeCluttering from Life Before Widowhood
Claire has asked: “My question: What was your approach to sorting thru all the detritus of your life before widowhood? ? There is a lifetime/house full of things from “we”. I can’t just remove it all…..too painful. So…what do i
Free Advice: Ask Me Anything
Dear Friends, This blog is a bummer. Poor thing, it’s just a repository for things I get published. I haven’t given it a life of its own. I always wanted to be “Dear Abby” or “Dear Beth” or Dear Prudence”
I’m a BITCH on Good Housekeeping!
Dear friends, Despite the bad timing, my biggest publication has come out today in “Good Housekeeping” magazine. If you like it, please share. The title is “I had to Channel My Inner Bitch to Live My Best Life After
4 Reasons Why Being a Widow is Like Being an Extra-Terrestrial
Ever since my husband George died, I’ve felt like a fucked up alien. In the two and a half years since his death, I thought I’d feel better about my life without him, but I don’t. It’s like
The Liebster Award
I would like to thank both J. V. at A Crazy Life and Becky at The Big L Photography Blog for nominating me for the Liebster Award. The Liebster Award is an award that is passed from new bloggers to others bloggers that need
Caregiver Guilt: My Second xojane Article
My second xojane article. And my second xojane article is up. It is dark. It’s about caregiver guilt when I was caring for George. Please check it out and, if it resonates with you, please share. One of my
Medicinal Marijuana and Warm Silk: My First Published Creative Nonfiction
Hello Dear Blog Friends: My first piece of creative nonfiction has been published on the site Full Grown People. Here’s the link: Medicinal Marijuana and Warm Silk. I’m thrilled, but would be even more so if people read
My Second Huff Po Article
Hello dear friends who I don’t want to plague with too many posts. If you’ve seen my blog Facebook page, you can stop reading now. Even if it does hurt my feelings. If you haven’t, I’ve got my second post
Blogged Down
Dear Blog, I hate that I’m never enough for you. You keep demanding all this SEO stuff. You seem so needy. We can’t be together unless you have major key words. You need hours of foreplay with Google Analytics
My First Blog Post on the Huffington Post
Ok, the blog page is purple. But I am on it…in the Post 50 section. I’m not featured (yet). So, it’s a little hard to find. Here’s the link. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/debbie-weiss/tripping-over-our-own-baggage_b_8179622.html Please check it out! I like it and I’m my own
Better After Fifty and a New Rant
Online magazine Better After Fifty has featured one of my posts! It’s here: https://betterafter50.com/2015/09/what-i-learned-from-overdoing-online-dating-after-my-husband-died (Ok, for the three people who’ve been reading this for a bit, this is what’s known as a repurposed post.) I have been contemplating a return to online
Single Dating Diva
And I have a new guest post up at “Single Dating Diva,” a lovely dating advice website in Canada. Apparently, the gods of Search Engine Optimization (aka “Jim”) think I should link to that site from this one, and in
Xo Jane
I got to be in “xo Jane” magazine today. https://www.xojane.com/sex/dating-for-hoarders I haven’t really been published before. So, thank you so much to people who liked my story and commented. Thank you if you like my FB page for my blog,
Keep on Running: Three More Men to Avoid
I last wrote about three really awful guys I dated. debbieweissauthor.com/run-from-these-three-guys/ So, these next three aren’t as bad, but since I was still feeling rancorous, I mean, since I still had more experiences to impart, I thought I’d share. Besides,
Avoiding the Dating Time Suck
Here’s the link to my latest post on Sheknows Experts: my latest expert post Apparently, if I put the full post up here, we enter into a time warp and Marty McFly was never born or
Run From These Three Guys
When I started dating, my life felt like a Fellini movie. I’d been with one person for thirty-two years, so going out was shiny and hyper-real. But after a while, dating became sitting around Starbucks listening to some guy
Avoiding Profile Pitfalls (Don’t Be “That” Dater)
I’m an expert on “She knows,” part of blogher.com So, I get to put up posts on that site. (This post was originally on that site). And I get a cool badge to put up here. As a recovering online
Soundtrack for the Cheerfully Bereaved
I would have been ok talking to the Rotary Club President about joining up had Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon” not come on the restaurant’s sound system. We were meeting over breakfast to discuss my becoming a Rotarian. He was discussing
Dating for the Cheerfully Bereaved
I sort of quit drinking because I was in the pit of despair. Up until about seven weeks ago, I used to have a couple glasses of wine with dinner every night. I really like my tapered, crystal
Dating Lessons from a Cut-Rate Flounder
I overdid the on-line dating thing and am now in recovery. I have killed off my avatar of amour, my doppelganger of dating. I am no longer on any sites, my phone is quiet in the evenings and
Dating for Hoarders
I went into hoarder mode shopping for men on “OK Cupid” and “Plenty of Fish.” I answered messages from anyone who seemed interesting and reached out to anyone who had “liked my profile” whose profile I also
The Blog Killer
Dear Blog, I am so sorry that I almost let you die. Especially since you were kind of expensive to set up because I used a web designer. I abandoned you in favor of J-Date, OK Cupid, Plenty
I Was a J-Dater
I couldn’t sleep so I joined J-Date. It’s an on-dating service like Match.com. Except for Jews. In fact it’s the self-proclaimed “premier dating site for Jewish singles.” Which is probably enough to scare most people off. My understanding
