Solo Mother

July 31st, 2008

Quality makeup on a single mother budget?

OO thanks to a simpatico single mother, I know where to get new makeup: e.l.f.
Or do I? It never occurred to me to doubt the word of a friend, and I’m sure she took this all on face value: they’re rebranding, she said, and everything is a steal! But another solomother tipped me […]

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July 30th, 2008

Are single dads more datable than single moms?

Christine Coppa of Glamor’s Storked! is throwing down, ladies. “Why is it that single dads are more marketable than single moms when it comes to dating? No, I didn’t conduct a survey or do any formal research. I’m going on a Chrissyism hunch. Take Jason Mesnick, the okay, handsome, educated, career-driven, single dad, Deanna […]

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July 29th, 2008

Magic….

I write often about magic in the everyday… about knowing where the milkweed pods are, or finding the perfect pebble. There is peace in small things, and beauty in the mundane. We are a culture of consumption, endlessly devouring everything in our path and still wanting more. We over-schedule our kids and work through the […]

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July 28th, 2008

A goal for 2008: saving for my child’s college tuition

Does the number ‘529′ mean anything to you? If you have kids who might go to college, it should ring a bell. The 529 Plan is a “tax-advantaged investment vehicle” (read: plan to encourage folks to save by giving a tax break or advantage for using the plan) that, for the intent and purpose of […]

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July 27th, 2008

Apropos of absolutely nothing single mom-ish…

The Kid and I are thinking about finding the Muppet exhibit that’s running somewhere in the city. Or perhaps we’ll just watch YouTube all day:

Enjoy this beautiful Sunday, wherever you are. What are you doing today, single moms?
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July 26th, 2008

horror in the headlines: mother slits childrens’ wrists

I’ve been thinking about this story all day, wondering if I dared say anything about it here. She was a mother of two, in desperate mental straights. She did this horrible thing to her children, and then herself. Amazingly, her neighbors knew something was happening, and summoned the police who, forcing their way into the […]

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July 25th, 2008

Here’s a blog we can all use: Financial help for single moms

Thanks BizzyWoman for pointing me to this great site. Denise Bergeron authors Financial Help for Single Moms, a site filled with articles about a wide variety of topics, from credit counseling to online degrees to budget worksheets. It doesn’t have that personal, one on one feel we’ve all come to love in the blogosphere, but […]

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July 23rd, 2008

Home again…

It was wonderful to get away, even though I was pretty well tethered to work with the Blackberry and the cottage’s wireless connection. We read books. We cooked food and ate out. We swam in the ocean and walked the Boardwalk. We played arcade games and made gigantic bubbles in the backyard.
And every time we […]

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July 22nd, 2008

Vacation, and the ocean gives a gift of trust and memory

the owners of the house we’re borrowing called us last night to warn us… offshore storm… watch the undertow. We went to the beach this morning, ocean side, not Bay, and were not surprised to see the waves, heavy with sand, pounding the shore. The mother in me quailed. The memory of me, as a […]

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July 20th, 2008

What would you do to reclaim your femininity?

There’s an article in the Washington Post today that made me chuckle. A Va Va Voom BOOM! Burlesque is back, baybee. And it’s hetting up significant portions of my home town.
I took a walk on Friday night with a friend, not following the historic tour of the U Street corridor, persay, but glad enough to […]

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