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” [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I don’t want to charge this blog up with politics, but a commentary piece I read over the weekend resonated with the single dad part of me. Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Ellen Goodman wrote about the language used by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, noting that “Obama co-opts female communication style”.
While Hillary talks tough and showcases [...]
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 [...]
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Wendy: dadshouse- You write in a comment above: “She had a fancy cell phone out of her purse and on the...
*Juliette*: I agree with Kat that NSA is a myth. There is always a cost when giving part of yourself away or taking...
Attainingme: OH MY GOSH!!!!! I can’t believe this. Too funny!!!! Definitely not what I expected!!!...
Mike: ROFLMAO. I would have had to ask, “Do you mean pay for sex? Like if you were a hooker?” Sorry you...
single mom seeking: Being in your neck of the woods, Dear Dad’s House, I’ve heard of these uh, certain...
Scott: I might be able to make this work, if I could ever get my ex- to even let me see my son…she thinks...
Single Mom in New England: Wow, my jaw dropped too. First - for you having the guts to follow through on a “I...
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