I love reading Susan Palwick’s blogs. She’s a sci-fi writer,volunteer hospital chaplain, and random do-gooder whose words often spark some wild hope and debate within my own, tumultuous soul.
Please read today’s entry over at Improbable Optimisms: Rickety Contrivances of Doing Good:
This week at the hospital, I learned that dying, or learning that you’re going […]
Lorra Lynch, a reporter out in Macon, Georgia on WMAZ-TV Channel 13, ran a piece on the impact of divorce on families with children. It gives a ray of hope that families can heal after such traumatic events.
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If you’re just beginning the struggle to recover from divorce, I […]
If you’re a single mother because you were in a bad relationship, there’s a good chance your baggage has a tendency not to just open up at inopportune times, but to actually explode all over the place in an extravagant display of dirty laundry. I don’t know that I’ve ever written about this, but towards […]
I don’t usually comment on the sensational headlines. But tonight, my head and heart keep screaming: WHY?
Why are all three of that single mother’s children dead?
If you know someone is overwhelmed and isn’t coping, you get her help. You don’t watch a woman with three children push an empty stroller down the street […]
I’m only the single mother of a single boy, going on five, now. I don’t know much about children with special needs, older kids, or such and so.
Well, there are some terrific writers on this here channel who can give you some help and laughter on your individual journeys.
For starters, there’s Weary Parent. Char’s family […]
They had been together for 13 years… but ten months after their son was born, he left her for another woman.
How do you rebuild your life after that?
Katherine Lee, part of the Working Woman crew and formerly an editor at Parenting Magazine, had to figure out how to answer that very question. Read […]
Preemies are near and dear to this single mother. I was blessed with a robustly healthy babe–shoulders of a linebacker and lungs of an opera singer–when he was born only ten days early… but I myself was very premature. I weighed all of three pounds when I was born, and lost an alarming amount of […]
There was a fascinating report on NPR’s Morning Edition yesterday on children, imaginative play, television and marketing.
“Old-Fashioned Play Builds Serious Skills” by Alix Spiegel. It brings to light some fascinating things we’ve suspected but couldn’t put our finger on…
television is bad for you. No. Really?
Tags: Alix Spiegel, childhood development, children, NPR, self-regulation, single-mom, single-mother, television, […]
Just when I though I was done with this silly business of love, my February theme by default—just when you thought it was safe to peek into the pages of SoloMother and not be pestered and bothered with thoughts on Valentines and sweetness and light—the Fates smack me with the stage version of Company, Steven […]
Jennifer W, you are the proud owner of The Modern Mom’s Guide to Dads
Look for an email from solomother and we’ll get the particulars.
Please keep checking back to the SoloMother site, I’ve got three more wonderful books to give away, and I want to give them to YOU!
Yes, you.
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