Social Life
Where’s That Blog Post I Remember Reading?
A quick and easy way to search
Posted September 2, 2010
Do you remember reading something on a particular blog, but can't remember the specific post? In the comments section of this post, Alan asked about finding links to particular posts. In response, Rachel provided a suggestion that I have found so wonderfully helpful that I wanted to share it.
Using the example of this Living Single blog, you would type your search term and then this:
After I first posted this, John A. offered another great suggestion in the comments section; type your search term and then this:
inurl:living-single
Another guide to previous Living Single posts (and other essays I've published in places such as the New York Times, Forbes, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and the Huffington Post) is Single with Attitude: Not Your Typical Take on Health and Happiness, Love and Money, Marriage and Friendship. It includes 89 essays organized into 18 topics.
Something else I can do is to cross-post all of my Living Single posts at my personal blog, All Things Single (and More), then you could just click on the Categories that show up on the right-hand side to find what you are looking for. But that would mean that subscribers would get alerts about several hundred new posts, which could be annoying. Feel free to weigh in on this possibility. (Of course, you can also search on this Psych Today site.)
Sometimes I get inquiries from people looking for writings on specific topics. I've responded to them with lists of relevant posts, so I'll share those here, too (below). I put most of these together before I had Rachel's great suggestion, so you may find even more examples of interest using her method.
The relevant links are listed under these topic headings:
- ECONOMIC ISSUES
- TAXES
- WORKPLACE ISSUES
- SINGLE LIFE AT DIFFERENT AGES
- SINGLE MEN
- SOLITUDE
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SINGLE PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN
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SINGLES IN ADVERTISING AND MARKETING
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CALLING OUT SINGLISM: THE RISKS AND THE REWARDS
- SINGLE FOR THE HOLIDAYS
ECONOMIC ISSUES
- Get married, get wealthy?
- The economy: A single person's vulnerability that is real
- The Marriage-Promotion Claim that Is Right - for All the Wrong Reasons
- Money problems have nothing to do with marital problems, and other bad advice from the past
- Character and caricature: Two stories about singles and money
TAXES
- Law review article on taxes: Uncoupled singles always pay a penalty
- Marriage penalty? I don't think so
WORKPLACE ISSUES
- Hey, Singles: Do Co-Workers and Bosses Expect You to Cover for Everyone Else Over the Holidays?
- Changing Careers: Is It Different for Singles?
- Making it on your own: Are these successful entrepreneurs single at heart?
- Singles value meaningful work - and did so even in high school
SINGLE LIFE AT DIFFERENT AGES
- Living Single: Are the Early Adult Years the Hardest? Part I
- Are the Early Years of Single Life the Hardest? Part II: Approaching Age 30
- Are the Early Years of Single Life the Hardest? Part III: Fears and Misperceptions
- Are the Early Years of Single Life the Hardest? Part IV: Single-Again and Single After 40
- 50 and Single-Again: Is There a Moral to This NY Times Story?
- The Moral According to Smartmarriages: "Incredible, Painful Loneliness"
- About those 20-somethings: Maybe they are on to something
- "Are you dating anyone" retort and 5 more tasty nuggets (see #2)
SINGLE MEN
- So what about single men?
- Those Pitied, Mocked, Envied Years Between the Late Teens and Late Twenties: What Are They Really About? [see the section on Guyland]
- "So Why Have You Never Been Married?": A Case Study in Accidental Singlism
- Single Men Have Good Hearts
- The leap from a little bit married to the whole thing: Do men and women differ?
- Single man with cats is in the news: Cue the innuendo!
- Actual newspaper headline: ‘Married men better men'
- Naughty or nice? Single men and married men
- The escalating war against single men: What's it about?
- Does marriage civilize men?
- Four single men: All hetero, approaching 40, living together for 18 years
SOLITUDE
- The American Psyche: Tipping Toward Solitude?
- Sweet Solitude, Part 1: Two Meanings of Alone
- Solitude, Part 2: The Benefits It Brings, and the Special Strengths of the People Who Enjoy It
- The Place of Place in Our Lives
- Vacationing While Single
- Extraversion and the Single Person
- Dining Alone, Part 2: Here's What People Really Do Think of You
- The living arrangement that is the new normal: Do you know what it is?
FRIENDSHIP
- How do you make friends when you are single?
- Magical friendship-making moments
- Finding a friend: The social psychological detective leads the way
- Gain a romantic partner, lose 2 friends?
- Breaking up with friends: Can you empathize?
- Singles or couples: Who has more confidants? More diverse confidants?
- Are the early years of single life the hardest? Part II: Approaching age 30
- What matters is whether you matter to others
- Is it OK to have a couples-only club?
- Dating, moving in, and losing contact with friends?
- What's not to like about a rave review? Missing the point of friendship and single life
- Men and women as friends - when one is gay or lesbian
- What friends know that others don't
SINGLE PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN
- It Takes a Single Person to Create a Village
- Children of Single Mothers: How Do They Really Fare?
- TIME's Misleading Cover Story on Marriage
- "Avoid marriage," advises Atlantic writer
- On tax breaks, emotional commitments, and the myth of the transformative power of marriage
- 10 things no one ever tells you about the children of single parents
- Deplorable article on the pathetic single-parent family and the awesome married one
SINGLES IN ADVERTISING AND MARKETING
- Singles in ads: Yearning, pathetic, or not even there [about the Top 6 marketing myths and mistakes]
- Bye, bye single supplement! Adweek proclaims the power of one
- Shout them out here: Singles friendly or unfriendly businesses, places
- Oscars and Razzies - singles category
- Oh, no, they didn't! Unsolicited advice and product-promotions for singles
- Back from a great trip, I find smut and singlism in my inbox
- Four uses for a wedding gown
- Do we need magazines for singles
CALLING OUT SINGLISM: THE RISKS AND THE REWARDS
- Is it bad to notice discrimination?
- Singlism: Should we just shrug it off?
- A lifetime of singlism: Getting crushed by a ton of feathers
- When ‘you’re too sensitive’ means ‘stay in your place’
- What singlism? An experimental study of obliviousness to discrimination against singles
- When will we be able to say, without getting ridiculed, that we want to stay single?
- Dealing with the put-downs
- It’s true: They’re mad at you for CHOOSING to be single
- Why I do what I do: Every stereotype in the book
- Here’s the answer you are not allowed to give if you are single
- In response to shaming of singles, cacophony of voices says ‘not this time’
- Unfathomable even to brilliant, kind, and open minds: The securely single
- What we can learn from boneheaded bigotry about single people
- Singlism and matrimania in everyday life
- ‘Why are you single' meets ‘why are you married'
- Where's our singles movement?
- Stopping singlism: What will work?
SINGLE FOR THE HOLIDAYS
- Holiday party game: Spot the fake couples
- Resisting expectations during holidays and every day
- Hey, singles: Do coworkers and bosses expect you to cover for everyone else over the holidays?
- Should you stay home for the holidays?
- Holiday spirit, 21st century style: Kay Trimberger and I share our vision
- Valentine's Day hype: Name your emotional reaction
- Are you secretly wishing for a Thanksgiving for one?
- Who is the boss of Thanksgiving?