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When an ex finds your blog

By singlemomseeking ⋅ October 20, 2008 ⋅ 52 comments

After obsessing about whether to meet the ex for coffee — and trying to heed your warnings — I went.
Seeing Adam (no, not his real name) after so many years caught me off guard.
Of course, I thought he’d still be good looking, but why the heck was I so buzzed? (Was he better looking than [...]

Tracking down my UPS man, part V

By singlemomseeking ⋅ September 16, 2008 ⋅ 21 comments

Part V?
I know what you’re thinking: C’mon Rachel, haven’t we heard enough about the UPS man? You’re really milking it now.
But I never got to the moral of the story, did I?
I haven’t sent my book to my former UPS man. Yet. But he did leave a message for me not long after I got [...]

Tracking down my UPS man, Part II

By singlemomseeking ⋅ August 27, 2008 ⋅ 22 comments

When Otis, my former UPS man, called at 8 p.m. to say that his work day was almost over, I smiled into the phone.
“Want to meet for dinner?” he said.
“Sure!”
I imagined some quiet, romantic corner — white wine, tapas, candles lit. Wait, does that kind of corner even exist in Manhattan?
“The ___ Grill,” he said, [...]

Squeezing in a date before the birthday gala

By singlemomseeking ⋅ April 7, 2008 ⋅ 6 comments

Thanks to all of you for the birthday wishes!
While my little sister and Mae baked the 8th birthday ice skating cake (above) — which turned into a frosting party that yours truly got to clean up — I went on a date with the Biologist. We went downtown to a little swank bar, where [...]

Have you ever taken your kid with you on a date?

By singlemomseeking ⋅ March 10, 2008 ⋅ 14 comments

Confession: I have. But my kid was still in preschool — and it was never a first date, or a second. But maybe a third.
More than once, I met a new man at the ice cream parlor, with my kid in tow. I’d made it clear to him that this wasn’t about being touchy-feely, this [...]