me

this was posted on my typepad blog, but I think I am going to go back to blogger. So, I just reposted my 2 posts from there to here. : (5/14/12)

I have decided to try blogging again. I am kind of over Dirty Laundry, so came up with this name...which perfectly describes my life right now. 

I turned 35 today and have decided that, moving forward, my happiness comes first.  I used to always put everyone else first (especially the men in my life). And it hasn't gotten me anywhere. I am ready to put all that love and energy into myself. ..

With that being said, I am going to share all my adventures here at CitySingle. ...  crafts/art, dating (the good, the bad AND the ugly), living in the city and all the funny stories that happen to my girlfriends and me. 

hope you will enjoy reading and perhaps will even share a few stories with me, too. 

Love After Love

The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life. 

Derek Walcott