Do you want to talk to a loved one, no phone required? Also free. Raise your hand if: a friend has popped into your mind seconds before they call or text you and it feels like a psychic moment. Maybe you can’t get a song out of your mind and then you hear it in…| Ann Garvin
While this letter seems like it’s about me, I wrote it thinking about you, me, all of us. We live in a world that asks too much of us. I had a bunch of medical tests, then broke my toe, and then had a minor flood in my basement. I don’t want to talk about…| Ann Garvin
Would you like to travel with me? It’s no secret I love to travel. The New Yorker published an essay called “The Case Against Travel,” and I thought about reading it, and then clicked away and packed my suitcase to visit my daughters, one in Minneapolis and one in London. When I am in unfamiliar…| Ann Garvin
It’s been a minute since we chatted. and I need to know what’s happened in your life since we met, e-met or chatted in Target. Or at a conference, in the elevator, standing in line for the magic elixir (coffee). So tell me, fill me in. For example: I learned that one of you is…| Ann Garvin
In Camp We Trust. “I want to bring everyone to Northern Wisconsin to the camp I worked at as a brand new nurse. The camp I used for the setting of Bummer Camp. I want people to live inside this book and experience the magic of sleepaway camp. I want them to be the camp.”…| Ann Garvin
More Jim. Hi all. I have a lot of hot topics to tell you about, but it seems that what people really want is more Jim. Jim who? You ask? Jim is the man I’ve been dating after being single since 2010. People know about him because I went on a date with a different…| Ann Garvin
MODERN LOVE: He Wanted to Date Younger Women Which made me angry at him — and then at myself I published an essay in Madison Magazine about a meet-up where I asked my date, who was my age, 62, how online dating was going for him. Right to my face, with an open smile, he said…| Ann Garvin
Good For Me This post went viral with 6 million, mostly nice views. It was a wild ride and if you didn’t read it, I thought you might like to. I am 62 years old, single, and recently, after watching “Love Actually” for the 17th time — toxic though it may be — I downloaded a dating app and…| Ann Garvin
“Can I be real a second? For just a millisecond? Let down my guard and tell the people how I feel a second?” –George Washington in Hamilton. Hey people, here’s the truth for those of you on Instagram thinking my life is a series of naps, writing, and travel. I’m terrible at vacationing. Picture this:…| Ann Garvin
Two sisters scramble to save their family's legacy in a funny, huge-hearted novel about grandiose plans and summers to remember by the author of I Thought You| Ann Garvin
Do you want to talk to a loved one, no phone required? Also free. Raise your hand if: a friend has popped into your mind seconds before they call or text you and it feels like a psychic moment. Maybe you can’t get a song out of your mind and then you hear it in…| Ann Garvin