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Single Mom Seeking is reading…

By singlemomseeking ⋅ September 6, 2008 ⋅ 18 comments

“Looking at me, you’d never guess that….”
Mark your calendars for Litquake, San Francisco’s annual literary festival. According to USA Today, San Francisco has the highest per capita consumption of both alcohol and books. Litquake certainly proves that (take BART folks, don’t drive).
I’ll be reading on Saturday, October 11 – as part of Lit Crawl, [...]

And the winners are…

By singlemomseeking ⋅ July 26, 2008 ⋅ 4 comments

Here are the winners of Choosing You: Deciding to Have a Baby on My Own, by Alexandra Soiseth, who 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.
Little Man’s Mom was [...]

Firsts

By singlemomseeking ⋅ July 18, 2008 ⋅ 16 comments

A week of firsts in our family:
Mae is going with a school friend to her very first concert tonight. The Jonas Brothers.
I put a little box of earplugs in her backpack this morning, which mortified her. (”Mom!! That’s so embarrassing!) I keep thinking about those little ears of hers, I heard that the girls’ screeching [...]

A child’s call to advertisers

By singlemomseeking ⋅ July 1, 2008 ⋅ 18 comments

Mae (who goes by “Mae Mae”) says that I spend way too much time with this laptop. She’s right.
Actually, her exact words are: “You love your computer more than you love me.”
So, I asked Mae if she had any ideas, so I can pull myself away from this machine.
“Let’s make a video, Mommy. I’ll ask–”
P.S. [...]

Why I’m up in arms about the overturned ban on guns

By singlemomseeking ⋅ June 26, 2008 ⋅ 31 comments

Many of you got a glimpse of the entry I posted a last week, called “Anger, Relief” — which I promptly deleted.
It described what happened last week, when a man with a gun slipped inside the home of one of my best friends, a single mom, and tried to rape her.
I wrote that post from [...]