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Solo Mother

March 25th, 2008

Ghosts, land mines and ancient history: memories of a breakup

I’m packing up, consolidating my house and my heart for yet another iteration of self in this transformation from married woman to single mother; sifting through what to keep, what to sell, what to give away. I remember the faces of each of the women who came to my rented, crumbling home in those first […]

By christina -- 8 comments

November 26th, 2007

Listen up, divorced dads

This diatribe will go just as well towards vindictive, angry mothers as it will fathers but, as I’ve just gotten done with a tour of the Blogosphere and read some of the nasty, crappy things some fathers have done to their children to get back at their ex’es… this post will address revenge-seeking fathers.
You suck.
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By christina -- 9 comments

May 1st, 2007

we were meant to shine

there are things that still make the bottom of my stomach drop out into a pit of despair… like accidentally stumbling across old emails from the ex from the bad times. When you have lived with pain for years, when you have shifted and accommodated yourself to it, twisted and contorted like the Elephant Man […]

By christina -- 6 comments

April 7th, 2007

we’re doing the best we can

Thoughts have been swirling around in my brain all weekend. We don’t live in the best neighborhood, though it’s ‘up and coming’ and ‘transitional’ and its name has been cobbled together from a classier zip code… with a qualification tacked on at the end. A 33 year old woman was raped not far from here. In […]

By christina -- 2 comments