I wish all you solomothers out there, all you women who work so hard to make your homes, your children, your lives, your significant other’s life beautiful, I wish you joy. I wish you love. I wish you three more child-free hours to sleep tomorrow.
I’m dolled up. I’m feeling sexy and alive. I’m going to […]
this perfect dandylion shook its white mane at us on our way home from a holiday party this evening, and my son’s joy at being able to blow blow blow was as great as any smile he’d bestowed to gifts on Christmas morning.
When I think that we went from having nothing to having it all […]
The King of Everything and I miss school. It’s not school so much, persay, as we’ve been having a great time being vacation bums and playing with all the wonderful toys he got for Christmas. We miss the underlying structure that school gives us: up at a certain time, out the door, walk to school, […]
Ohhh, ladies. I’d promised an interview with a gentleman who seems to gravitate towards single women — just his luck, it seems. I had a chance to corner him with some questions about what it’s like from the other side of the skirt, so to speak. What I got back was a very frank, honest, […]
Hello, there, single mom. How you doing? Staring at your empty pocket where the holidays burned a big hole?
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Rent in DC is insane. I don’t see how people can make ends meet. I certainly can’t! So this week, I’m off to the hallowed halls of the DC Government to see what kind of help I can qualify for, and start there. Yes, obviously, I’d prefer to have a job that covers my expenses AND allows me to save. […]
At around 2:30 this morning, I finally went to bed. The train table was assembled, but I didn’t bother with setting up the track. Too complicated for tired old me. All the presents from Santa were wrapped and under the tree, the fixin’s for a zuchini and onion fritatta were ready to be mixed together […]
I’ve just finished putting together the kid’s train table, thanks grammy and grandpa! But I’m too tired to deal with track. Rats. I put it together in his bedroom while he slept, and he didn’t so much as sigh. There’s one advantage to being single: you don’t have to argue with anyone on how to […]
I have received so many gifts since we returned to the US. Katherine’s gift of clothes helped me walk into my temp assignments with my heat held high. Kat and Matt, and later Renee, with their generous offer to let us stay with them til we got on our feet. And their kids, who offered […]
I wonder if every holiday will be like this: even through the pleasure of having the King of Everything around, I’m haunted by the spectre of Next Year. Next year, my son will be with his father somewhere far away, and I will be without the light of my life for the first time since […]
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