Will you get married again?

For as long as I can remember, I have imagined marriage and the baby carriage.
Life didn’t quite work out that way.
When I started to date again as a single mom, I was set on finding Him and tying the knot. I dated. And dated. And dated some more. And along the way, I grew as [...]

Googling for sperm? A chat with the author of “Choosing You”

All her adult life, Alexandra Soiseth wanted a husband, children, dogs and cats, and a loving, home. But at 39, with no husband on the horizon, she decided to take matters into her own hands: she googled for sperm.

In Choosing You: Deciding to Have a Baby on My Own, Alexandra shows that with a little [...]

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 [...]