I used to work at home, too, and I found it isolating, also.

I always tried to have some scheduled thing to do that would be outside the house once a week. Volunteering and stuff is definitely good. I volunteered in town stuff (I lived in a very small town at the time -- about 5,000 people), so they always needed people to be on boards and stuff.

Also, I found a great place to do pottery, where you took one class a week, but could go in to practice basically any time. And usually people were around.

So I did that, too.

For me, it generally takes a fairly long time (6 months) to feel comfortable about calling people up or whatever. But even the casual social interaction was good, just to keep me from isolating myself even more.

-Far