Family
I gave to myself this Christmas
Go ahead and call me selfish.
I do my best give to my kid all-year round. My friends and family will tell you. Ask them, really.
As we approached December 25, I was spent. I’m not the kind of person who forgets things or wants to sleep in. But that’s what was happening. Last weekend, after Mae [...]
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 [...]
What Are Your Favorite Single Mom Books?
Kriz, a single mom who recently commented right here, has me a mission: to find children’s books in which a single mom is the star.
Easy, right?
If you plug these words into Google — “single mom,” “children’s book” — this book comes up first:
The Best Single Mom in the World: How I Was Adopted, by Mary [...]
Can a Single Mom Have a Boy Toy?
That’s the question I tackle this month at LifetimeTV.com. I say:
“I’m the type of person who gets attached when someone touches me. All that “no-strings-attached” chatter doesn’t work for me. This is how my DNA is wired. I just can’t help it.”
Most of the readers, however, are urging me to go ahead and find a [...]
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 [...]
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