Suddenly Single

  You Belong to Me by the Duprees is one of the classic standards of the 50s. It was a Golden Oldie when I was a teen. I loved it then I love it now and today while I was listening to it, via Alexa, play See the Pyramids along the Nile… somehow it just struck a cord that I could look at some of our old pictures in the framework of this tune. I’ve often said I don’t know how young people fall in love these days with no romantic songs to fall in love to. This song brings back memories of going to the canteen as a teenager, waiting for your favorite song, the anxious moments of wanting to ask a girl to dance. These beautiful moments are precious; moments of holding her around the waist hand in hand, hers gently curled up under my chin, feeling the warmth of her body against mine and dancing a slow dance. This was it. This was Mecca. This was dancing with a girl where you could smell her perfume and breathe her essence. I remember the softness of her sweater, the softness of her cheek ...

Click here for YouTube Video 😋 Cranberry sauce is my favorite condiment with turkey at Thanksgiving. I don’t know how many cans of ocean spray I have purchased over the years but somewhere along the line. I learned that I could just make cranberry sauce by buying a bag of cranberries and mixing it in boiling water with sugar. It’s pretty much that simple, one bag of cranberries, one cup of water, one cup of sugar boil it up and while it’s boiling add a pinch of cinnamon. I tend to use less than a cup of sugar, but I also use orange juice to sweeten it up and flavor it up. So best of luck to you and have yourself a very happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🙏

  I’m starting this comment while still listening to you so I don’t know how you finish up but… but my first impulse is to say I appreciate and respect you for your honesty. I have had lonely periods and I do agree that it can feel crippling. I just lost my wife of 46 years. My whole adult life was Us. I was in shock for the first couple of weeks. I howled in emotional pain. I wanted to. I wanted to saturate myself in that pain of loss….but… But, here I go again, that depression lifted. It lifted like a weight off my mind and it went away… I mean it went away and the other day I was walking down the street and said to myself I’ve never felt so happy. I felt guilty for a minute. How could I feel happy? But it did and I do. I feel happy. I have gotten closer to my family and friends. I have gotten to know my daughter, my sister, my cousin, my friend on a much deeper level than I did when we were married. And now, as far as female friends, I have a few but I don’t want to become roman...

Click Here for YouTube Video 🙂 https://youtu.be/BSCS1bhPKQY?si=oxJm2gIro_0IDMFV  Getting ready for Thanksgiving dinner with the Family I always want to bring something simple and sweet so Sweet Potatoes with a Pecan Crust fills the bill. My cooking mantra is that Everything goes Better with Butter and Brown Sugar so this Sweet Potato Soufflé has plenty of all that. As always I don’t pretend to be a good cook or offer advice on Anything. I just always want to bring Something so I put things together that seem like they’d taste good. Baking the sweets tastes better than boiling. I was surprised they were good and soft without burning in the oven at 450 for 1 hour. I strip the skins and eat them separately. Nutritional value of Sweet Potato skins = Fiber and Vitamins; A C E Minerals; Magnesium, Manganese and Potassium… so you get all that in nature’s gift wrap that many people just throw away 😋 Suddenly Single and So Thankful for my Friends and Family 🙏 Have a Happy Thanksgiving 🦃...

 I know this is Denzel Washington and I’m Not, But… but so many of his points are Exactly what I have  been learning, thinking and experiencing as I continue into this journey of being single.  My immediate concerns of emotions of sadness and loss after her passing have given way to an inner sense of realizing that hey, I’m Ok. One day while walking downtown it hit me… I am So Happy! I immediately felt guilty. Like is this OK? Is it OK to feel happy? Am I right? Am I wrong? What do you mean? I’m happy I didn’t mean any disrespect to my wife or to her memory. It was just a spontaneous feeling I had of exhilaration it was during the hurricane I was going downtown and plugging in my devices every day and then walking down for coffee and then the process I would meet people and just have a few words of you know how’s how things going for You I kind of just share the moment and you know in that process I suddenly discovered a sense of energy I was energized. I ended up doing s...

 I think it’s safe to say that everybody needs rest. Everybody needs to go to sleep. Every creature that we observe on earth spends at least part of their day curled up, snuggled up with their eyes closed and their little heads in the clouds. It’s a beautiful peaceful feeling, and it can be very frustrating if when you lie down on your Soft little pillow and close your eyes to go to sleep that you find yourself waking up instead. And for some reason, it seems to work pretty much that way I can be feeling very sleepy. I go in to lie down to go to bed pull up the covers turn on the fan, turn on my brown noise, but next thing you know, my eyes are wide open and I begin that circular syndrome of  “oh no” I can’t get to sleep. Well, what I have discovered is that it’s that moment of  “oh no”that is really the problem. The fact is that I don’t really need to go to sleep. I only think I need to go to sleep and it’s the thinking I need to go to sleep that starts to mess with my h...

Alice and Pete prepare for the Holidays   Married, Suddenly Single or Paired up again, the holidays are special times to share with friends and family but when you are suddenly single it becomes even more complicated. Mine, Yours or Ours is multiplied by the other relationships that have evolved through our lives. We love our kids but now our kids have their own kids and their own unique family relationships. How do you make everyone happy??? Or do you? Can you? Should you? It’s complicated, it’s life and Alice and I share and explore a small part of it. Thank you for listening and please share your own experiences.

Suddenly Single  and  Seeing a New Point of View Alice and I have been friends for many years. Her husband Dave and I shared a friendship that spanned grade school, high school, college, and 50 years of marriage. Tess and I were married for 46 years, building our family, careers, and lives together. Now, after losing our life partners, we face many challenges but also new opportunities to learn, grow, and navigate the world on our own. This podcast is dedicated to sharing our experiences as we embrace these changes and the possibilities life offers in this new chapter.