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Three Days in New York: Part III

January 5, 2012CommentMandy Hale

“I am someone who is looking for love. REAL love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can’t-live-without-each-other love. And I don’t think that love is here.” ~Sex & the City
I know how unbelievable this whole story sounds. Smalltown girl takes off for the big city to meet the mysterious man she’s loved for five years, only to be courted and romanced and pampered and ultimately taken to a closed diamond store and have dozens of sparkling engagement rings … » Read More

Three Days in New York: Part II

December 28, 2011CommentMandy Hale

“When you thought you’d be baking pie and living behind your very own white picket fence you’ll find yourself doing something so entirely different you couldn’t have even imagined it a year before. There will be moments when you’ll look around and not even recognize your own life…in a good way.” ~Kate Northrup
On a breezy September night in New York City, I found myself being pulled along excitedly by my Mr. E as he grabbed my … » Read More

Three Days in New York: Part I (Excerpt from Never Been to Vegas)

December 19, 2011CommentMandy Hale

“It’s funny the way things work out. You go in search of one thing and end up finding something else. If I didn’t know better, I’d think it was the Force at work.” ~Hans Solo
One Friday in late September 2011, my friend Whitney and I were laughing about how we wanted desperately to travel to New York the following weekend; both of us for varying reasons. She had friends who were going to be in … » Read More

The Single Woman’s Dash of Sass: Speak Now

December 11, 2011CommentMandy Hale

Quote of the Day: “Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life saying the right thing, at the right moment is beyond crucial. So crucial, in fact, that most of us start to hesitate, for fear of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. But lately what I’ve begun to fear more than that is letting the moment pass with saying anything. I think you … » Read More

The Single Woman’s Dash of Sass: Throw Love, Not Stones

November 16, 2011CommentMandy Hale

Quote of the Day: “No one is perfect…that’s why pencils have erasers.” ~Unknown The Single Woman Says: It seems that as a society, we are awfully quick to jump on the judgment bandwagon. Quick to judge. Quick to hurl insults. Quick to criticize. Quick to build celebrities up to impossibly high standards, then kick them when they inevitably fall from grace. I have watched people … » Read More

The Return of Mr. E (Excerpt from Never Been to Vegas)

October 15, 20111 CommentMandy Hale

In April of 2011, I finally at long last closed the door on my long-suffering relationship with “Mr. E,” (Mystery? Get it?) my on-again, off-again love of five years…and for the first time in at least that long, I felt FREE. I felt like I had TRULY moved on. I wasn’t thinking about him anymore…I wasn’t crying over him anymore…I felt like I had finally unchained myself from him and his memory for the first, and … » Read More

The Single Woman’s Dash of Sass: Things Change. Love Remains.

October 10, 2011CommentMandy Hale

Quote of the Day: “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.” ~Nicholas Sparks The Single Woman Says: What this life has taught me in my almost 33 years on the planet is that not all love lasts…but the lessons love brings to us do. … » Read More

Would you…could you…go Back to the Future?

August 24, 20101 CommentMandy Hale

Do you ever wonder…if you were to change one little tiny detail about your day…how your life might be different? Show up a few minutes early instead of a few minutes late. Take a different route. Shop at a store you’ve never shopped at. Call someone you haven’t spoken to in a long time. Say hello to someone you don’t know. How would all of these things change the life you are leading now? And … » Read More

Eat Pray Love: Well worth the journey

August 13, 2010CommentMandy Hale

As little girls growing up playing with dolls and Easy-Bake Ovens and pushing our fake grocery carts around and carrying our fake purses, it’s pretty much drilled into our heads from Day 1 that the pentacle of a woman’s life is marriage, and kids, and carpools, and a white picket fence. We marry off our Barbies to our Kens at 5, marry off ourselves to our first boyfriends on the playground at age 10, and … » Read More

Finding The End where it all began

July 30, 20101 CommentMandy Hale

Once upon a time, in a land called Music City, there lived a fair maiden who fell hard for a boy. For four years she loved this boy from afar, as the two engaged in a very on-again, off-again, Carrie Bradshaw/Mr. Big, never-quite-black yet never-quite-white relationship. The girl could never work up the nerve to tell the boy she loved him, and then one day it was too late. He disappeared without warning. And he … » Read More