Solo Mother

March 11th, 2008

Career. Kids. Single mother. How does this work, again?

Over at Career and Kids, Elizabeth is having a scheduling challenge the opposite of mine: she’s got a week filled with kids’ activities, while I’m up to my eyeballs in work. I need a kid-free week, but that’s just not possible. One deadline got pushed back because of a little thing called herding cats: trying […]

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July 5th, 2007

is divorce a crash course in self?

If divorce is the crucible by which women must find themselves, you can count me out of this particular brand of navel gazing in my next lifetime.

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June 5th, 2007

I wasn’t going to post tonight

It’s been a very hard week–and it’s only Tuesday. I’ve been so very careful since October, taking on more responsibility, more pressure, more more, but slowly. I’m being kind to myself. I’m not overextending. I’ve given myself time to grieve and mourn, time to grow into my job, time to heal, time to branch out […]

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April 1st, 2007

Bring your kid to work

I brought my son to work with me today. Yes, I’m working on a Sunday, why do you ask?
I brought him in for a variety of reasons. First, I have no idea what my father does. When I was a little girl, I had a hard time saying ‘attorney’. One night, my father brought clients […]

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March 29th, 2007

Work and the single mother

I’m exhausted. I’ve had a Netflix sitting on my bedside table for a week, but haven’t found the time to watch it. My beloved books are lonely.
So is my son.
My mother has keys to my house. Today, she picked the boy up from school and he wanted to go to his house to play. Apparently, […]

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December 9th, 2006

Making ends meet: are you making enough money, single mom?

I’m unemployed again. I’m sure something new will turn up — I just don’t know when. I’m faced with a staggering bill for shipping my belongings back to the US from Dubai. Believe me, I wanted to just leave it all there, but much of what was there was irreplaceable. It’s still less expensive to […]

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November 29th, 2006

Babylune and the single mother — single at birth

Kate over at Babylune has interviewed Gloria Gamat, who writes Cancer Commentary, about what it’s like to be a single mother from the beginning.
Thank you, Kate and Gloria, for such a thoughtful conversation about the real life choices mothers make every day when we’re left to raise our children more or less by ourselves. I […]

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