I’m so sick of saying, “It is what it is,” about so much that’s going on, in my personal day to day life, in the lives of single mothers throughout the world, in the political and environmental sludge that seems to be suffocating every bright and hopeful possibility…
So I’d like to thank Jim for sending […]
Hi, my name is Christina, and I’m a single mother…
I landed in the US six months ago today, jet lagged and heartsick and utterly bereft of the dreams I thought were mine to count on. I’ve been thinking about this day for about a week, now. Wondering how I’d feel when it finally rolled around, […]
I lay in a borrowed bed, safe between pillow top and feather comforter, the egg blue walls muted by midnight, my face turned towards the square of streetlight across the pillow. It was an old, familiar feeling of other sanctuaries, other borrowed beds with metal frames, a different street lamp illuminating a different sleeping scene, […]
Coming up, part three of a conversation with a single father, three years and counting after the split. Guess what? He’s dating. o.0
If you’d like, go back and read parts one and two… he is truly an eloquent and thoughtful man. then… read on. And THEN… answer the poll on the right…
Tags: dating, dating-with-kids, […]
Here is part two of my interview with a single father of two. He and his wife split over three years ago, and he’s got good news: it gets better. If you missed it, go back and read part one, then come back for some advice on how to get through the first few years and forge […]
After a month of wrangling, what was left of my material life came home today. Box after box trooped up the stairs on the shoulders of strong, South American men. This fantastic, stepped chest of drawers was unwrapped and placed in this new, decidedly NOT oriental, part of the world. Part of the movers’ job […]
this perfect dandylion shook its white mane at us on our way home from a holiday party this evening, and my son’s joy at being able to blow blow blow was as great as any smile he’d bestowed to gifts on Christmas morning.
When I think that we went from having nothing to having it all […]
Ohhh, ladies. I’d promised an interview with a gentleman who seems to gravitate towards single women — just his luck, it seems. I had a chance to corner him with some questions about what it’s like from the other side of the skirt, so to speak. What I got back was a very frank, honest, […]
A very kind friend shared this passage with me. It’s from a book he read a long time ago; these words stayed with him:
“The evidence of the goodness in life stands before us. I am not blind. I can see. And so, to talk too much about the past would reduce it. This is what […]
Solo Mother: All the responsibility. Half the time.
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