When a Single Dad’s Daughter Needs Girl Stuff

My daughter asked me to buy her tampons the other day. Ugh. That’s the last thing a single dad wants to get at the local drug store. It’s bad enough buying her razors (little pink ones), face soap (fancy junk from a spa), shampoo and conditioner (a very specific brand and type).
I can never find [...]

When life gets you down - just put on your big girl panties and deal with it

Dads, that goes for you, too! You can put on your big boy underwear when life get you down, right?
There I was at the BlogHer Newbie soirée last month — actually, I was standing outside the conference room because it was too loud and crowded in there — when I found myself sharing appetizers with [...]

How I got hooked on kickboxing

About six months ago, the same vivacious single mom friend I mentioned yesterday told me, “Let’s take a kickboxing class.”
I thought she was joking.
She knew that I was the kind of woman who does yoga. Or goes on walks through the woods. I’d never really worked out before. And I’d certainly never joined a sweaty [...]

Inspired by One-Woman Show

One-Woman Show calls it “AFGO (Another F–g Growth Opportunity).”

If you read our blogs, then you know that these lovely opportunities often come to us in the form of relationships.
This spring, One-Woman Show took “that FGO and wrangled it into a mixture of potting soil and deck stain.” In the end, she explains, “I at least [...]

The Biologist and I are taking a break… or maybe more than that?

It might be a temporary break. It might be permanent.
This probably won’t come as any surprise to you, considering, um, the trials (I just wrote “trails,” but yes, those, too) we’ve been through up until this point.
I need to be careful about what I say here. Not only do I fear hurting his feelings — [...]