My name is Robin. I live on the side of a hill in a town with fewer streets than I have fingers.

My friend Janet told me that the description above makes me sound like I’m some sort of a troll or something. Maybe my IT guy thinks that way about my house (he wrote that blurb when he set this up for me) because we can’t get any cell phone service here due to the aformentioned hill.

I’m all about the “Small Town” and I love John Mellencamp for making it popular, as well as for everything else about his music, attitude, etc. Crushin’ just a little for the past 30 years.

Seriously, I work long hours, I take care of my daughter Justice, and on Sunday…I feel happiest when I’m in my garden or under the canopy of my trees with my hands in the dirt and the Polka music playing on the radio. I’m single, I know…with that description, it’s no wonder why. But I’m not alone, there’s a bunch of other unmarried folks in their 30s/40s/50s around here, you just never see us because we’ve all pretty much given up hope and convinced ourselves that this is the way it’s going to be from now on. Or if you’re like me, you’re positive that Prince charming will call out of the blue or come a knockin’ on the front door without any effort and then there will be the obligatory ride off into the sunset. Did I mention I like to watch old movies as well?

Also, if you’re like me, you wonder if that is what you really want…what if marriage turns out to be the horror story so many of our friends tell us it is? What if we get what we think we long for and we loose everything we have now: security, peacefulness, personality, everything in it’s place? Just something to think about…if there was only a way to slow it all down, be honest about these concerns, tell someone how we really feel without scaring them off or pissing them off. Oh to meet someone who is on exactly the same wavelength and is willing to talk about it openly before all of the unspoken messages get tangled up and misread; it would relieve all of that dating pressure, don’t you think?

Lately, I have been thinking of ways to get us all connected, or at least out from under our rocks. So if I’m sending you this and you are single, go to my home page and write something about yourself or let’s get a conversation going amongst a few of us, it’ll be fun, trust me. You don’t have to leave your house or your comfort zone.