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 […]
The King and I stopped at the park on our way home from our usual Sunday ritual of coffee and sweeties and juice at our favorite coffee bar (if your till is $10 over, then I did indeed give you a twenty, lady!). The park was quiet, as we arrived just after the lunch […]
When we first were married, neither of us could remember what life had been like before ‘us’. Now that it has all fallen apart, I can’t remember what brought us together in the first place. I have no idea who that man sleeping in our daybed is.
Our son is glad to see his papa. […]
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’m burned out. I’m burned out at work, I’m uninteresting here at SoloMother. I’m just wading through the mire, trying to get through these difficult learning times to solid ground. If you’re just joining us here, if you’re newly single, newly mothered, or considering the alternative to an unhappy marriage, take heart. It’s difficult. It’s […]
The King of Everything is recovering from his surgery. He doesn’t know how to slow down, take care of himself, take it easy. He moves pell mell through life and doesn’t stop til he drops; the pain in his throat makes eating and drinking a chore he’d rather forgo. By six he’s wilted, his head […]
Today was a trial, for everyone whose life has been touched by the King of Everything. Being a child, and being a boy, he doesn’t express his feelings with words–he simply acts. He nearly acted himself out of every pleasant thing his grandparents and his mother had planned. He had spent Friday night at his […]
I missed my bus last night, and couldn’t bear the thought of standing around watching the bums, while waiting for another bus to show up. So I called a friend and he walked me home, all the way from the station to my front door. Virtual running shoes, he called it. Being a single mother is […]
I’m in tears tonight because there’s just not enough time. I’ve already worked almost 30 hours this week and it’s only Tuesday. All I wanted to do tonight was lay on that little boy’s bed and snuggle him. But work is insane right now, and if I want to be able to take my lunch […]
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