On Karaoke
I hadn't noticed how secluded I had become before my split with Chelsee in 2017. We split the kids half-time, so in the months following, when I went from living with her for the previous eleven years, raising kids for the previous nine, to all of a sudden having (comparatively) huge sloughs of time when it was just me, I felt kind of lost. I had friends. She and I shared friends. I didn't think I was a huge loner, but in that first year when I just needed to go hang out with someone, anyone, I found it really hard to find people to do that with. I seemed to have very few friends who I could just call up and meet up with. I felt alone in a way I had never really felt before. So I started doing things on my own. I went to Starbucks on my own, which I had always done when I had a spare minute. I went to movies on my own, though I rarely made it through a whole film. I went to eat on my own, reading novels and sipping on a Guiness at Bonzinni's, or eating my weig...