Solo Mother

April 15th, 2008

Be very careful what you say…

Digging around in the kid’s head tonight revealed some interesting things:

his father told him that we broke up because we disagreed about him.
he and his dad talked about weddings.

It was a long, hard snuggle time tonight. He wanted to hear about his parents’ wedding, every last detail. I had to endure describing it as it […]

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January 3rd, 2007

portrait of a single father, part one

I’ve been interested in this man’s responses to my questions for a long time. In working on this interview, we’ve had some pretty amazing conversations via e-mail and cell phone, and I’m always struck at his ability to be so honest, so candid, and so even-handed when talking about how his marriage crumbled and the […]

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December 18th, 2006

Back off. Butt out. Not your divorce.

Maybe I can say this because I’m not a rabid Beatles fan — I was caught between Kiss and the Who when I was coming of age, thank you very much. (What that says about me, I’m not quite sure…) But the vitriol being spouted about celebrities as they gear up to split up is […]

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December 10th, 2006

Who you gonna blame? Single mothers… or absent fathers?

When I first began to write Solomother, oh these two months ago, I touched on the fact that there’s more than one way to become a single mother: divorce isn’t the only way. More and more women are choosing to be single mothers, through known or unknown donors. But the old fashioned way still works… […]

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