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Single Parent Dating
& Parenting Teens


An Online Dating Success Story

Posted on April 22nd, 2008 | 7 comments

Who says online dating doesn’t work? I admit, I was one of the nay-sayers. In eight years of divorce, I tried some of the most popular online dating sites – match.com, yahoo personals, eharmony, chemistry.com, salon.com, nerve.com, OKCupid, everything but matchmaking by DNA. The experience left me jilted. I became wary of online dating expert [...]

My Daughter’s On Facebook – Can I Still Join?

Posted on April 4th, 2008 | 8 comments

Friends are encouraging me to join Facebook. I admit it’s tempting, but I’m not sure it’s the best idea. With 64 million active users, the Facebook social networking site is one of the most heavily-trafficked websites in the world. Facebook could be a great way to meet and interact with people online, especially ones [...]

Bringing Up the Bottom of Alltop

Posted on April 3rd, 2008 | 12 comments

Dad’s House was recently selected to be part of Alltop – a website that collects stories from “all the top sites” on the internet. It’s the brainchild of Will Mayall, Kathryn Henkens, and Guy Kawasaki, the noted Apple evangelist from back in the day. (I was at Xerox around that same time.) Single mom bloggers [...]

Pass the Kleenex, I’m Tearing Up

Posted on April 2nd, 2008 | 7 comments

I have a good life. I’m a single dad with happy and healthy kids; we live in a nice home in a beautiful area; I’ve enjoyed success and am pursuing my passions; I strive to be self-aware. It wasn’t easy getting here, but I did. And believe me, I’m grateful. So I’m always caught off [...]

Confessions of a Serial Online Dater, part 1 (Craigslist coffee date gone bad)

Posted on March 31st, 2008 | 12 comments

When CityGirl answered my craigslist ad, I should have known by the way she replied that we’d already met. My post said I was looking for an attractive, educated woman to meet for cocktails in Palo Alto. In her email reply she said she lived in San Francisco but frequently consulted on the peninsula, and [...]

Be Wary of Dating Expert Advice Sites

Posted on March 18th, 2008 | 7 comments

So, you’re thinking about giving online dating a try, but you have cold feet and you google for expert dating advice. Be wary – some sites offering free advice are really there to sell you on the idea of internet dating, and make money off you in the process. Without you giving them a dime.
How [...]

Boys are the New Girls, Women are the New Men

Posted on March 13th, 2008 | 7 comments

The mother of one of my son’s friends called the other day to pass on some troubling gossip she’d heard. It seems another boy who used to be good friends with her son told her son that my son said some not-very-nice things about her son behind her son’s back, and her son was understandably [...]