Welcome to So I’m Just Thinking…
I’m Rhonda. I’m almost fifty, recently moved to Chicago, and apparently decided this was a reasonable time to reinvent my life and start writing things down.
This blog started because I thought I was going to write about dating after fifty.
Then I realized dating was only one part of the story.
I’m much more interested in everything around it: starting over, becoming someone new without becoming someone unrecognizable, finding a place that feels like yours, the strange little moments that somehow become the ones you remember, and the ridiculous things people do when they think no one is paying attention.
I like books, cities, people-watching, possibility, impractical ideas, practical men, and stories that begin in one place and somehow end somewhere completely different.
I also tend to notice things.
A look. A sentence. A weird interaction. The person at the next table. The moment something ordinary suddenly becomes funny, meaningful, or both.
And then I overthink it.
And then I write about it.
Some posts will be about Chicago. Some will be about dating. Some will be about starting over at an age when you’re supposedly old enough to know better. Some will be about the people and places that changed me. Some will probably make absolutely no sense until the end.
I’m not here to give advice.
I’m here to tell stories.
Funny ones. Tender ones. Occasionally ridiculous ones.
Mostly, I’m here because I’ve spent a lot of my life wondering what happens next.
Now I get to find out.
So I’m Just Thinking….