January 3rd, 2024, it’s Wednesday here in Westborough, Mass. I moved here to Westborough from Connecticut in March of 2022, after losing my wife to breast cancer. The idea was to get away from where she passed and I sold the home and came here, thinking, it may bea good place to live and to find a new partner for fun times in the future here or now.

 I have tried the BookStore here, then I tried at the suggestions of others, bars/ taverns like The Red Heat Tavern, The Neighborhood Tavern in Northboro, The Central House, and JP’s also. All decent places but, none really made for senior citizens my age and up looking to meet new partners. I wish I could find such a place but, I am also not ready to hang out at the Senior Center and do nothing, so I am trying to find things to do in town.

 I know of bowling, and did that last year in two different bowling alleys, like Bowlero and at The Apex in Marlboro, both were fun of course, but, most are younger there. I do like to play pool/billards and do so here in my condo complex in Westborough., once a week.

 I don’t see a place to dance in town for seniors, nor have I found karyoke clubs either, which are fun of course. I like Westborough, but, I am not sure what to do it in for my age range, I am about to turn 68, but I am not dead ok!

 Is there any place to meet seniors 60 and up, in Westborough or the area? Or am I in a town there is no such place to find? I don’t know, so, I will say this I am not a big drinker, I will drink for social occassions only or to fit in and of course sip a drink. I do like to read, and walk, and write. I like eating out at resturants but, not alone i prefer a companion for such. It just feels strange to do so alone for me, after my 28 years with my deceased wife. My family is no where close to me, so I am alone most of the time, it can get to a person if you get my drift. Loneliness sucks folks , lol, hows that for honesty !

 I tried dating apps like Zoosk, Match, Our Time, and I found that the ladies there want money not company or companionship. The apps cost money to join and you find all are many miles away and not really available. It is a crazy thing these dating apps in my book, you can set up profile and tell the truth and still get no one to find you or reply to you. KInda crazy in my world anyway, hoping as you spend money and get no where, because of covid, or fears and anxieties if you know what I am saying. When I met my wife, years ago, it was at a Singles Dance, and I see nothing along those lines around these days, at least not near me.

 I want to have fun again, meet a woman I can get along with and share time with. Am I wrong to want that, and is there anyway of finding such here? I don’t know, I just know, Westborough, Mass. and the area doesn’t seem to be a place friendly to it. So, I shall keep trying of course but, I won’t be stupid and blow money or act foolish, it’s not something, I will do is all. I write my blogs and watch Facebook and news daily. Or at least when I can.

 I do like to walk the mall near me. As to what happens next, or where i look I know not anymore. It is one day at a time, and just an existance under the current conditions for me. I keep getting told, get out more, meet more people, but how, without being taken for money? It’s a crazy world for sure in 2024 for me.