0 DP LIVING On Life and Love After 50: Dilemma for Widows and Widowers Tom Blake By Tom Blake A senior woman emailed: “I’m dating a widower of two years. He has pictures of his deceased wife everywhere in…
0 DP LIVING On Life and Love After 50: Perseverance and Senior Love Tom Blake By Tom Blake I first wrote about San Clemente resident Chris Anastasio and his girlfriend, Tina, in 2009. The story of how they…
0 DP LIVING On Life and Love After 50: Do Single Women 65-Plus Prefer to Live Alone? By Tom Blake Marillee emailed, saying she had read that single women age 65-plus don’t want to live with a man. She wanted to know…
0 DP LIVING On Life and Love After 50: The Drawing Station By Tom Blake “Why am I here?” I thought to myself on Dec. 1 as I entered the Mission Medical Plaza on Crown Valley Parkway….
0 DP LIVING On Life and Love After 50: Qualities Wanted in a Potential Mate Tom Blake By Tom Blake In 2003, I published a book titled Finding Love After 50. How to Begin. Where to Go. What to Do. The…
0 DP LIVING On Life and Love After 50: The Challenges of Senior Dating During the Pandemic By Tom Blake For years, I’ve stated the best way for single seniors to meet potential mates is to get off the couch and out…
0 DP LIVING On Life and Love After 50: It Could Have Been Us By Tom Blake It’s hard to feel upbeat during this COVID-19 health crisis, with so much alarming news, and knowing that so many people are…
0 DP LIVING 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 DP LIVING On Life and Love after 50 by Tom Blake: Tom’s Blunt Advice for a Lonely Widower On Life and Love after 50 by Tom Blake: Tom’s Blunt Advice for a Lonely Widower A 75-year-old widower of two years emailed me this…
0 DP LIVING On Life and Love after 50 by Tom Blake: An Evening with Rosanne Cash By Tom Blake South Orange County seniors often ask for suggestions on how to add variety to their social routines. I can now recommend a…
0 DP LIVING, Opinion Columns, SOAPBOX On Life and Love after 50 by Tom Blake: The Reach of this Newspaper My partner, Greta, and I are on Day 21 of an 82-day cruise in Asia. Being 6,100 miles away from South Orange County, it’s been…
0 DP LIVING, DP Living Headlines Guest Opinion: On Life and Love after 50 by Tom Blake It’s Time to Go: Grand Asia & Pacific Cruise Reality hit me this week when a FedEx driver came to the front door of our…
0 DP LIVING, DP Living Headlines Guest Opinion: On Life and Love after 50 by Tom Blake What Should Couples Older than 50 Call themselves? In the 24 years of writing newspaper columns about age 50-plus dating and relationships, there is…
0 DP LIVING, DP Living Headlines Guest Opinion: On Life and Love after 50 by Tom Blake-Is Senior Online Dating: Productive? Quirky? Dangerous? Risky? The answer: all the above. Online dating has become a huge business. There are hundreds of sites. But does it work for seniors? Yes…and…
0 DP LIVING, DP Living Headlines Guest Opinion: On Life and Love after 50 by Tom Blake -A Senior Woman Blames Men for Relationship Problems This January, I wrote an online column about LAT (living apart together) relationships. In the article, I quoted a male reader, who said the…
