Article Highlights:

• Alone still?
• Scary campfire stories
• Can you find god in a martini?

Dear Solo Artist,

A friend wrote a bunch of VCool stuff in an email recently and started me thinking. One of the things she talked about was being alone.  Along the way she said that sometimes Absolute martinis and aloneness go together nicely, mostly joking.

However, she did more seriously suggest we could all don a nice little black dress, put on some red lipstick, and go out for a martini alone more often.  And she said Hemingway wrote his greatest work after a martini.  Might not work for me, however.

I’m not much of a drinker you see, but I do have a nice black dress and some red lipstick that I don’t wear often enough. As I mentioned, it got me thinking.  What it lead to was thinking about being alone vs. feeling alone.  Something to think about right now especially, right?

There’s a funny thing about alone, isn’t there?  It’s a bit of a trick word.  As my friend went on to say, we are all alone.  True enough.  Husbands, friends, children… everyone comes and goes.  But we are only constant to ourselves.  (more…)