When men are confused

Maybe it’s because the world feels unsteady right now, as if there’s a constant undertow.
Or maybe it’s because there’s a Capricorn moon with Saturn in Virgo.
All I know is, there’s a comment awaiting moderation right now in response to my post about “Kate Hudson: “Boys, Meet My Son.”
The comment, however, has nothing to [...]

Do you think divorce is genetic?

This week at MomLogic, guest blogger Mom-On-the-Edge asks if we are “Destined for Divorce.”
Mom-On-the-Edge, who is trying to save her marriage, examines the divorce cycle, and asks: Is it genetic?
Like Mom-On-the-Edge, my parents got divorced when I was little (she was one, I was three), in the 1970s. Like Mom-On-The-Edge, my sister and I had [...]

Happy Father’s Day to all the single dads out there!

Father’s Day used to be so darn sad for me. I’d wake up, open my eyes, close them again and wish the day away. But now that we live out here in in Cali, near my dad and step-dad, it’s not so bad.
What makes it all better are the single dad bloggers I’ve met through [...]

Do you always use a condom?

All this talk about condoms yesterday has inspired me. Well, not inspired, exactly. It has made me a bit manic, to be honest.
To make matters more intense, it just so happens that during Mary Pols‘ book launch party last night for Accidentally on Purpose, she read her infamous chapter about her condom-free one-night stand, [...]

All I got for Mother’s Day was a finicky orchid…

And it already looks dead.
No really: I was so tickled when the Biologist showed up for our date the day before Mother’s Day with an orchid. So sweet! It’s the first time in his life that he has ever dated a single mom, and he gets an A+ for his sincerity and genuineness.
Before [...]

Can you guess which single dad I have a crush on?

He started “it” back in February by sending me this sweet email. I’m a sucker for compliments:
“I really like your blog and website, very well done,” he wrote. “There’s a reason it’s the only single parenting site in my blog roll so far.”
Fortunately, he has since added more bloggers, like Ms. Single Mama . [...]

Single Dad Seeking…

I’m dying to know what you all think of this:
A single dad I know — who prefers to remain anonymous — recently posted this ad on Craig’s List.

FREE Great Room
This ad is real and there are no ulterior motives attached to it. I have a great room in my great home I [...]

I became a single mom on Thanksgiving

Looking back, I should have seen the signs. He was drinking more. He wasn’t sleeping. When he was, he crashed in the other room.
Just before Thanksgiving in the year 2000, Mae’s father told me he wouldn’t be coming with us to my cousin’s house, where we’d planned to spend the holiday. Instead, he wanted to [...]

Who’s Your Daddy?

My former editor at Pregnancy magazine is writing a piece about different kinds of families — yes, as in the mother-daughter team we’ve got over here — and she recently asked if she could interview me. Since I’m going on Year Seven as a Single Mom, I haven’t obsessed about the Daddy question in a [...]