The first day I moved to New York I realized I would be spending MANY meals eating alone until I established my circle of friends. The first stop: Cafe Angelique. Luckily, I wasn’t the only one eating alone. People had their books or the company of a latte and a croissant, I had the company of a huge slice of quiche and was more than satisfied. A seat at the window made for good people watching and made me feel much less lonely, for about thirty minutes….which is better than nothing.

Music is the best cure for a lonely heart. Because artists are notoriously lonely people and their healing mechanism is to “create” and pour themselves a glass of whiskey to drink while they write a sad song and for those of us that are the listeners, we feel slightly better about ourselves knowing that we aren’t the ONLY ones who feel “alone out there.” Last album I bought: Float by Flogging Molly

Instead of going to a huge AMC or United Artist theater where everyone is out on a “movie date” its nice to go to a smaller theater where you can sit and eat a BUCKET of popcorn by yourself, guiltlessly. To me, there is NOTHING lonely in buying movie junk food and devouring it….I’m reminded how much I don’t like sharing and that seeing movies alone are better than having someone chat in your ear about, “what’s going to happen next?!”