All my life, I’ve felt this vague unease, this keening wail in the back of my psyche that cried, “I want to go home!” Didn’t matter where I was… in my apartment, in a lover’s arms, in the most beautiful spot in the world: some part of me keened and wailed. Home. As I fought […]
I love Tam. I’ve followed her escapades around greater New York and the far suburbs thereof (yes, sometimes, the rest of the world can feel like a suburb of New York… and I’m not even a New Yorker).
So I’m thrilled to pimp her latest, collaborative project, Huge Mistake. Part art experiment, part musicbox for the […]
Yeah, it’s important for everyone, but especially for us parents who do twice the work with half the hands. I can only hope my kid grows up to think as far outside the box as Improv Everywhere: We cause scenes.
Their latest scene involves three ‘operatives’ schlepping their desktop computers — tower, monitor, the whole deal […]
February is often a dark and gloomy month here in my home town. Thank goodness for Valentine’s Day! With the King of Everything, I know I’ll never spend another sad and lonely V-Day again. But this Valentine’s card goes out to everyone who has enriched our lives, made us laugh, made us feel safe, loved, […]
When my marriage fell apart, and I spent such desperate and breathless nights alone in the guest bedroom, my mind spinning a million miles a minute, veering wildly from denial to fury to utter despair… I found a beautiful, handbound book I’d carried with me from home to home, from one continent to a place […]
There has been an influx of new and bright and wonderful women recently, so I thought I’d take a second before running out to help a friend with stubborn radiators to say HELLO!
This place is as good as you make it. Explore the tags to the right, suggest other blogs I should list in the […]
I really enjoyed reading this little bon mot by the grown offspring of a single parent in the forums of Salon magazine… way to go, Sky Bluesky. It made me feel better about what we’re all doing, and I can stop looking at my kid screaming I WANT TO PLAY and thinking, I really need […]
I’m going through some Big Scary Stuff right now, stuff I’m not ready to talk about, but Stuff that has hit me back down into the realm of humble and grateful and… humble. And so in love with my kid it’s beyond the capacity of my heart to contain it. I hope, when things get […]
It seems we’ve fallen into another golden time we’ll look back on when we’re older–with fondness and nostalgia, I hope. I’m a lucky single mother.
When I was a little girl, my father would take me to Doc Dalinsky’s over on Wisconsin and O Streets. It was a pharmacy, an old fashioned drugstore, where Nettie who […]
I’ve been thinking again on what it means to be a single mother. We certainly are driven to more creative and flexible solutions when it comes to fulfilling the needs and challenges of parenting, career, and love, even though the very circumstances that drive these out of the box solutions force us into a very […]
Solo Mother: All the responsibility. Half the time.
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