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May 27th, 2008
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SingleWorkingMommy recently had this to say about my writing in the comment section of my How To Grill Asparagus post:
You’re a great writer (and I’m an editor, so take that for what you will)–I could picture the restaurant, the setting, the mood. I could almost feel your gin-induced fog. Great piece.
Except I get this “cree.pee” [...]
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April 15th, 2008
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In their first kickass contest, Honey and Lance asked the question: How do you define successful relationships, and what does it take to achieve that success?
As if a divorced single parent can answer that question! After all, the major relationship of my adult life ended in shambles, and eight years later I’m still single. But [...]
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February 29th, 2008
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Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Laura Sessions Stepp gives a detailed look at the hookup culture that is permeating social scenes in American colleges and even some high schools.
Hooking up involves two people getting together for sex without commitment or attachment. Ms. Stepp suggests [...]
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February 14th, 2008
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Tom Perrotta’s new book, The Abstinence Teacher, is for the most part an enjoyable read. But what’s with the main characters – a divorced man incapable/not allowed to raise his child, and a woman whose only male friends are gay? Isn’t it time to stop furthering these socially toxic stereotypes?
As a heterosexual man who is [...]