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Blended Families – Stirred, Not Shaken

Posted on May 12th, 2008 | 9 comments

When SingleMomSeeking began remodeling her site, it struck me how blogging is kind of like single parenting. Your site is your own, you make your own choices about the what/when/how/where/why, you live with the outcome, good or bad, and you’re happy and grateful for the chance to go it alone.
Imagine two bloggers merging their existing [...]

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, everything but matchmaking by DNA. The experience left me jilted. I became wary of online dating expert advice [...]

Single Dad Seeking Single Mom Seeking Lunch

Posted on April 14th, 2008 | 8 comments

Two months ago when I started my blog, I googled to see which single parent blogs were hottest. SingleMomSeeking consistently ranked at the top of search results. Her credentials were impressive – a published book, magazine articles, TV show appearances. Rachel Sarah was the blogging single mom I was seeking.
I put up some initial posts [...]

Hooking Up – I Just Want To Be Your Lover

Posted on February 29th, 2008 | 8 comments

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 [...]