Over at Career and Kids, Elizabeth is having a scheduling challenge the opposite of mine: she’s got a week filled with kids’ activities, while I’m up to my eyeballs in work. I need a kid-free week, but that’s just not possible. One deadline got pushed back because of a little thing called herding cats: trying […]
Always listen to your heart, single mom. Especially when it’s saying something you don’t want to hear, or whispering something soft and poignant and a little yearning…
My son has a crush on a neighbor-man. This man and his wife live on the corner, with their three wonderful dogs. One day, this man even […]
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 […]
Being a single mom is an adventure filled with bright moments. Like tonight.
The King of Everything and I have been planning our Valentine’s Day date night for a week. We’ve been so excited about it, even though it’s the same date night we ever do — Johnny Rockets. It was so much fun to […]
The other morning, I found myself on all fours, bouncing maniacally up and down on the King of Everything’s bed. “Get up get up get up!” I giggled, and the child woke, bouncing and thrashing and wondering what the heck was wrong with his crazy mother. I, myself, was wondering where this strange feeling of […]
One of my favorite solomothers–a beautiful singer, a witty writer, a juggler of schedules and budgets and boo-boos and life–is no longer quite so single. Her beau proposed on Christmas day, and she said yes. Her ring is a beautiful blue stone, a topaz? Surrounded with little diamonds, it sparkles like the sky. Truly a […]
Poking around on the Net found me an extraordinary woman who suddenly became a mother after the utterly unexpected death of her younger sister left a baby born one month prematurely in the hospital…
I don’t know how she did it except that well, she did it the way we all do it.
You just […]
I feel like a line from Rocky Horror tonight:
Dr. Everett Scott: We’ve got to get out of this trap! Before this… decadence… saps our wills. I’ve got to be strong, und try to… hang on! Or else, my mind may well *snap*! Und my life… will be lived…
[singing]
for ze *thrills*…
I don’t know how […]
Tonight, I helped my parents throw a dinner party in honor of a local theater’s thirtieth year. I ended up working it. Worked my butt off. But my folks were so happy, it was worth it. I love to help, and the way my weeks have been going lately, I really needed a couple of […]
Today, I’m thinking about my cousin, whose birthday it is today. She’s three years younger than I, and this year has thrown her some challenges that have been hard to stand. She’s the most cheerful woman I know. Sweet, even. Generous with her time and her smile.
When this day rolls around, as it has with […]
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