When my kid started to complain about his plumbing, the future grandmother in me didn’t waste much time. I’m not one to run to the doctor every time he sniffles, but five days of uncomfortable pee and I’d had enough. But how does a single mother make the time to get to the doctor?
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When we moved back to the States, I made a few conscious decisions while running around in a panic of FOOD! CLOTHING! SHELTER! WORK! This newly single mother decided that the Earth was a place worth taking care of, and that she’d better start doing a better job of it.
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At a (second) job interview last week, one of the principals of the company asked me, “What’s your ideal job?”
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On my way to my temp assignment, I passed a woman begging on the street. She was settled in an attitude of utter surrender, head bowed, hands gently folded around the corners of her sign that simply read, “Please help.” I dug around in my pockets for my coffee change (went to Juan Valdez […]
I finally unzipped the last suitcase just tonight. I hadn’t opened it since we got back from Dubai, as it had mostly formal clothes and those few precious possessions I was loathe to leave to Fate and the whims of an ex-husband to ship.
Who would have thought I could be so homesick for a place […]
I haven’t cooked a meal from scratch since we got here. Me, who used to cook for a living, used to own a catering company, used to spend sixteen hours on her feet chopping and stirring and concocting…
oh, well, there was that one day at my friend Kat’s where i made meatloaf and butternut squash […]
Running a charity is a full-time job. When you ARE the charity, you unfortunately don’t get paid for the work you do.
I have a few dozen people to thank, and that’s just the first round:
Thank you to:
My parents, who believed in me(even though they didn’t really know I could do it, they believed). And who […]
Sometimes, the only thing standing between a divided family and poverty is… child support. If a parent decides to withhold that money, for whatever reason, he or she is putting the child in jeaopardy. And since I’m a single mother, I’m going to only write about it from the ex-husband not paying […]
This week’s Carnival has something for everyone, so I think I’m going to toddle on off with a cuppa tea and catch up on how the other half lives. ;-) You know, the folks with other halves! I especially empathise with Kate’s post over at Babylune regarding finding adequate childcare while she works. It’s such […]
It wasn’t until after the interview that I noticed exactly WHERE on my ass the slit in the skirt stopped. Or found the one inch hole in the seam of the matching jacket. Sigh.
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