There was a note in the King of Everything’s bookbag this evening when I picked him up from school: he had some serious homework.
Seems he’d spit on three kids in his class today… unheard of behavior from the KoE. He has three notes of apology to pen tomorrow, instead of going to the Zoo. […]
I do have a private journal. I don’t share everything here… but I recently wrote down my deepest fear and secret, and then thought I should share it with you here: sometimes, I don’t want to be a mother.
Is that horrible?
Sometimes, I feel like I can’t do a good enough job for him. I […]
Sometimes, I think that being a single mother is like being in a Twelve Step program: Take it One Day At A TIME.
That’s me, right now. Leaning heavily on the love and support of my parents and friends as I try to make it all work. Looking for balance. Wondering how it’s all going to […]
The Single Mom I’d Most Like to Meet turned 35 recently, and grew up in more ways than one.
She found her ex’s profile on a dating site, and did what so many of us have fantasized: she gave it a little truth in advertising makeover.
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I don’t mean this in a callous way. Far from it. There are times I wake up in tears over what was lost, but I’m mourning an ideal, not the reality. But last night, as I sat around the fountain that serves as an ice skating rink in the winter and focal point for jazz […]
We finally got out of our pyjamas around noon today. Heaven. We packed a picnic lunch and the KoE’s bug catching paraphanalia, with butterfly net, magnifying glass and binoculars, bug trap and tweezers. The King draped all and sundry around his neck, filled his pocket with equipment, and waved his net down the sidewalk to […]
I suck. Everything was going well, on the surface. A friend picked up the King of Everything for a playdate with her daughter — his bestest friend in the whole wide world. Great! I show up to make dinner for everyone, and he’s happily playing, pretending to ice skate on some old carpenter knee pads. […]
Thanks to Stealthbadger for pointing me towards this article in the Washington Post about single parents in today’s military: Yearning to be Whole Again. I can’t imagine what it must be like Over There for the blesh and blood we collectively lump under the faceless label of ‘the military’ or ‘our troops’ or what have […]
There’s nothing quite like experiencing something beautiful, knowing with a certain dread that you will never again experience that simple, normal moment. As the exquisite sounds of I Muvrini filled the makeshift ampitheater one starry night in August, as the singer lifted his voice and asked, “A Qui Tu Es L’Amour?” (”Who adores you?” is […]
I’ve only ‘known’ Rose for a short while, but already I count myself lucky to have met her. Her courage, determination, and all out guts have taken my breath away at times… and the sweetness, passion and hope of her music brings a little bit more joy and happiness into my own home every time […]
Solo Mother: All the responsibility. Half the time.
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