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Knocking down one white-picket-fence at a time living my childfree life.
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How to cook for one (opens the original)
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Welcome to the Spinster Community Dispatch. A monthly series where I chat about ways I’m building, finding, and joining community as a solo living dog lady.This month, how a little complaint about cooking for one turned into a whole community of helpful tips!Last week, amid a semi-regular frustration with the annoyances of cooking for one, I lamented about it in a Substack Note:<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OUis!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_
How I learned boundaries in the workplace (opens the original)
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Welcome to Spinster Field Notes, a monthly personal essay where I reflect on what I’m learning and unlearning as I build a solo-living life with intention. These are the things that I am wrestling with, celebrating, and trying to understand as I take a road less traveled. Today, I’m talking about the biggest lesson I learned about being childfree in the workplace and valuing my free time. Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about work. Maybe it’s that it was just Labour Day weekend. Maybe it’s that
Spinster Stack: Historical Heroines (opens the original)
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Welcome to the Spinster Stack, a series where I share book reccs that reflect all the weird, fun, hard, and frustrating aspects of being a woman living alone and trying to navigate a world that isn’t really built for people like me.This week, diving into historical fiction, particularly stories of women without children or women living outside the traditional script in other ways. Historical fiction has often been a genre I enjoy because it offers different versions of “historical fact,” particu
How would I live if I didn't meet "the one" until I was 70? (opens the original)
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Welcome to the Spinster Community Dispatch. A monthly series where I chat about ways I’m building, finding, and joining community as a solo living dog lady.While chatting over ice cream with friends the other week, I mentioned to them that another friend and I have started to discuss whether we might want to buy a home together. Not as romantic partners, but simply as friends who would like to live with someone they care about. One responded with the question:“But what if you get into a relation
How I met a Burlesque dancing senior in Antarctica (opens the original)
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Welcome to Spinster Field Notes, a monthly personal essay where I reflect on what I’m learning and unlearning as I build a solo-living life with intention. These are the things that I am wrestling with, celebrating, and trying to understand as I take a road less traveled. Today, I’m talking about the incredible senior woman I met at a BBQ on a ship in Antarctica that reminded me that our lives can look however we want them too.One of the things I have loved most about traveling solo is the amazi
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