Childless by Marriage the book is a teenager. Published in 2012, it’s not the bestseller I had hoped it would be, but it’s a good book, and I hope it has helped people understand what it’s like to …

Living alone means you make all the choices

Let's look at the possibilities

How will you feel about your childless journey 15 or 20 or 30 years from now?  I’m finding out as I reread my Childless by Marriage book for the first time in years. I’m preparing an audio version.…

Balancing income and expenses when you depend on Social Security

Should we expect to be poor because we're alone?

Leaving Home at 83 by Sandra Butler

Coming home to silence

No Way Out of This is not the kind of Alzheimer’s memoir where you read about a noble, self-sacrificing wife who gives up everything to take care o...

Sometimes it helps to be alone

Dear friends: I live in a childfree bubble. I had to get away from my home on the Oregon coast to see that. Where I live, hanging out mostly with people over 60, I just don’t see a lot of children.…

Simone and Malcolm Collins have six kids and are hoping for ten, each produced by in vitro fertilization and delivered by C-section, because they believe the U.S. is heading for a crisis if people …

Reaching out is not easy, but it’s an option

It's not necessarily a bad thing

Facing a future with no children used to drive me crazy. Back when I was fertile and married to a man who was not, I cried a lot, mostly where he couldn’t see me. I resented my friends whose lives …

Living alone, who or what makes you get stuff done?

Getting through this Hallmark holiday alone

Living alone means it’s always your turn to take out the trash

Living alone means it’s always your turn to take out the trash

When writer Cassidy Randall’s friend announced that she was pregnant, Randall felt betrayed. The friend she counted on to join her for spontaneous trips, hikes, concerts, or whatever struck their f…

if you're open to the possibility

Advance Directive Form raises tough questions

Do we wait until we have a stroke or break a hip?

One person can only eat so much

Finding a balance between not enough and too much

No one is watching, so, why not?

Treating yourself, and a few more words about dogs

Especially when I live alone?

But we can make our own traditions

You may live alone, but you don't have to be alone

Including a visit from Rudolph the Reindeer's elkish cousins

Dear readers, I shouldn’t have looked at Facebook. Every holiday season, I tell my childless friends to stay off social media because it’s too upsetting. All those happy family pictures, especially…

Should our fears keep us from going out?

I wasn't always alone . . .

Managing Christmas presents when you live alone

Robocalls annoy everyone, but especially those who live alone

But there's truly no place like home

Is our phone, tablet or laptop a substitute for actual people?

Did Thanksgiving make you feel thankful for your solo life?

Going alone can be challenging but worth the effort