0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love after 50: Why Can’t Senior Men Be ‘Just Friends’? By Tom Blake Janice, not her true name, age 70, emailed, with this question: “Why can’t senior men be ‘just friends’ with a lady? “I…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love after 50: Like A Rock By Tom Blake A week ago, my partner, Greta, and I were sitting at our desks in our home office. Out of the blue, Greta…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love after 50: Tom’s Blunt Advice for a Lonely Widower By Tom Blake A 75-year-old widower of two years emailed me this week seeking dating advice. I’d heard from him twice before. In January, he…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love after 50: The People You Meet Aboard Ship on a Cruise By Tom Blake In my previous column, I wrote about an 82-day Grand Asia and Pacific cruise that my life partner, Greta, and I are…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love after 50: Eight Red Flags if Widow Allows Man-Friend to Move In By Tom Blake In 24 years of writing columns about senior romance, I’ve often been asked about senior couples cohabitating. The most recent question in…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love after 50: A ‘Green’ Valentine’s Day for a Long-Distance Couple By Tom Blake Valentine’s Day is associated with red hearts, red greeting cards, red heart-shaped boxes of chocolates and red roses. But for one San…
1 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love after 50: How Long Should You Wait to Date after the Death of a Spouse? By Tom Blake In 24 years of writing about senior relationships, I’ve been asked many times, “How long should a widowed person wait to…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines Guest Opinion: On Life and Love after 50: Cruising around Cape Horn and North to Rio By Tom Blake In my previous column, I wrote about seeing penguin Glenn Miller near Punta Arenas, Chile, while on a 34-day cruise from…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love after 50: Widow Puzzled by a Friend’s Warning By Tom Blake Robyn, 62, a widow of five and a half years, contacted me regarding a comment a friend made to her about the…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love After 50: Writing Columns for Nearly 24 Years By Tom Blake “How long have you been writing your column?” a woman I had never met asked me in the Capistrano Beach Costco…
0 Uncategorized On Life and Love after 50: Three Senior Single Women Looking Ahead to 2017 By Tom Blake With 2016 coming to a close, three senior single women share their thoughts on dating, relationships and life as they look ahead…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love After 50: Pondering the Safety and Rewards of Overseas Travel By Tom Blake When my partner, Greta, and I had our first date on June 27, 1998, at the Claim Jumper on La Paz,…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love After 50: Assessing How Much to Talk about an Ex or Deceased Loved One By Tom Blake A widow, who is beginning to date again, asked, “How much should a person talk about an ex or deceased spouse?”…
1 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love After 50: Blind Dates Can Be Challenging for Older Singles By Tom P. Blake I admire single women age 50-plus who make the effort to get out and meet men instead of complaining about the…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love After 50: Women Traveling Alone By Tom Blake With the arrival of summer, I am often asked about travel, particularly by women who have no one to travel with….
