Jamie Lynn Spears gave birth to baby girl this morning!

Update: One of my single mom friends pointed out that I seem SO congratulatory here. In no way am I advocating teen pregnancy. I’m all for sex-ed and birth control. I think that waiting until you have a baby — until you’re in a solid relationship, with a solid career, and of course, a solid [...]

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, [...]

Sex and the City Trivia: Do you remember the name of Miranda’s nanny?

Hint: She’s the one who found a vibrator in Miranda’s bed… and swapped it for a statue of the Virgin Mary.

At San Francisco’s Sex and the City event with Sasha Cagen, author of Quirkyalone, Mysti Doughty, and Waleska — one of my always-there single mama friends. (Hint: we’re the two shorties!)

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 [...]

Beware of blogging about your ex

Chrissy at Glamour does it. She refers to her baby’s father as “SD,” as in “sperm donor.”
Ms. Single Mama has a whole category about her ex-husband.
In her blog, Solo Mother pleads her ex-husband to answer her emails about her son, but he won’t respond.
Dad’s House recently wrote about the fact that communication with his ex-wife [...]

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 . [...]

Come out with me tomorrow night…

Top this: tomorrow night, a group of talented female authors is getting together to chat about writing, men, single motherhood, bad dates, work…and how we they balance it all.
If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area, don’t miss this sassy event — Thursday, April 3 — to hear yours truly at the SF Commonwealth Club [...]

Can he really drop his little black book for a family?

UPDATE: Read his response here.
To clarify: Esquire’s communication with us was never sexual — okay, except for maybe the post in which he wrote, “Dude, single mothers are hot,” with a link to this blog” with a link to my blog. (I was flattered.)
If he’d been sending us notes with sexual undertones, we [...]

Shameless self-promotion, the Spitzers, and the McCartney divorce

If you haven’t read Random Esq’s post today, apparently I made him trip down a flight of stairs yesterday. Not on purpose. I swear!
This “random attorney” — who doesn’t have a single mom girlfriend, but sure has a lot of single mom fans — was reading my email on his cell phone when he was [...]