Dear LFTP: the accomplished, lonely volunteer

• I am accomplished and stable but sinking into loneliness after relocating — do you have any suggestions?

A listener with a doctorate in educational leadership and a 36-year career writes that she is financially stable with many friends yet sinking into loneliness after moving to Florida. Five years passed before one volunteer job accepted her; a philanthropy group costs her over $1,000 a year and never asks her to volunteer, and she wasn't invited to its social event. The advice: broaden horizons — food banks and homeless shelters 'don't say no' — get involved in a church, and stop forcing herself into a community that isn't hers. A running gag about pronouncing 'philanthropy' runs through the letter, and Leila contributes a point about churches helping find service spots. The secular answer asks whether she's affiliated with a religious institution in her community.