Blogging is like breastfeeding

Update: Two readers just made me realize that I’ve been blogging for as long as I breastfed. Whoa.

I was reading my latest newsletter from Mediabistro about its annual dinner for women’s magazine editors. But it was this quote from New York Times reporter Lisa Belkin that stopped me in my tracks:
Belkin compared blogging to breastfeeding [...]

Hot single dad coming to town?

First, my apologies: this is not my surprise – yet! This past week, however, has certainly surprised me.
This fall, I got a random email from a single dad vlogger, explaining that he’d recently launched a website for single dads:
“I wanted to see if I can grab 20 minutes of your time for some [...]

When your blog intersects with real life

I know it has happened to many of you: you’ve “met” a blogger online, and then realize that you live in the same neck of the woods.
So, why not meet for real, in the flesh?
Has it happened to you?
That’s how I met Jim, a.k.a. Depot Dad.
He started to read my blog this year. By [...]

Is your blog ruining your dating life?

I remember the day last year when one of my favorite single mom bloggers — Emily Listfield at Redbook magazine — called it quits:
“When Redbook first asked me to share my dating adventures I was thrilled,” Emily wrote in her last post. “I really believed (and still do!) there’s too little attention paid to single [...]

Evan

Disclaimer: This post has nothing to do with single parenting. And it has everything to do with a special little boy and his loving family.
Evan Kamida would have been eight years old tomorrow. As you know, I have an eight-year-old. Although I never got to meet Evan in person, I felt like I knew him. [...]