What’s a married dad doing on Single Mom Seeking? Welcome Robert Rummel-Hudson

This blog began in another format in 2006 as a safe space for single moms to open up. It easily could have turned into a male-bashing ring. Thank goodness it didn’t. Sure, we’re known to go off on our exes once in a while — because parenting solo can be tough — but the single [...]

How do you keep your skin thick?

I was just looking back through my drafts, trying to decide what to post tonight, when this email landed in my Inbox:
“You asked how to heal after heartbreak. Stop thinking about yourself, and start trying to repair the damage you have done to your precious daughter. She had no choice about getting [...]

“I’m always so tired of seeing articles about single moms”

UPDATE: What timing. Just after I wrote this post, four spankin’ new hardcover copies of Trey Ellis‘ memoir arrived.
Bedtime Stories: Adventures in the Land of Single-Fatherhood officially comes out on Feb. 5. I’m going to give away four copies — to two single moms and two single dads — who comment here in [...]

Who are you voting for?

Ever since I could vote, I’ve known months beforehand which box I was marking on the ballot for President. It has always been a no-brainer.
But not this year.
For sure, I’m voting Democrat. But I still wonder: Which candidate will do his/her best to support non-traditional families like mine?
I’m talking about affordable health insurance and daycare, [...]

Have you been invited to a kid-free wedding? Did you go?

I’m in a tight spot and I need your help.
I detail my dilemma today at BabyCenter.com:
In short, my best friend from childhood has invited me to her wedding in southern California. I would love to fly down to San Diego and party with her! (My little sister, who’s single and child-free, is going for sure).
But [...]

When violence hits close to home

When violence hits this close, it’s like I have no meat on my bones. I don’t like feeling this vulnerable.
Today at BabyCenter.com, I write about the 10-year-old boy who was shot near our home last night.

He was hit by a stray bullet during his piano lesson, when a robber opened fired at a gas station [...]