There's a great, relatively new website called single-woman TV. The actress who is the Executive Producer of the site, Kim Kuhteubl, asked whether I would answer 18 questions about myself. Of course, my favorite of the questions was the one that asked, "What's the best thing about being single?" Here's how I answered it:

Being able to pursue the life that is most meaningful to me. My favorite example is what happened to me when I moved out here to Santa Barbara, California from the East Coast for what was supposed to be a one-year sabbatical. I loved it so much that I wanted to stay. I also wanted to commit myself to pursuing my work on singles as close to full time as possible. So instead of having a full-time university job, as I had for more than 20-years, I wanted to earn enough to pay the bills, then spend the rest of my time reading, researching, and writing about singles. Giving up a job with tenure to do that was a big financial risk. It was a risk I would have been hesitant to impose on someone else, even if I had a spouse who was supportive. But to take that risk myself to pursue what I was passionate about - that was fine. Exciting, even.