The Single Moms Club
The day I took that positive pregnancy test my life changed, my whole life - I have talked about it many times before, and I think about it every single day. The most immediate change was not actually...
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The Same but Different
Photo via Werner Schnell We do handover - a few brief minutes in a train station waiting room. And in those minutes I try to impart every piece of important information, all the new words, new...
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This week I started getting my house straight. All those little jobs you know you should do, but for whatever reason you don't. I say whatever reason - I know exactly the reason, these would be the...
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Something to be Proud Of...
Do you ever think about all the labels we wear; as women, as mothers - some of them self-declarations, some of them imposed upon us by others. All a result of decisions we have made. I remember back...
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At Breaking Point, Nearly Broken
Last week nearly broke me. The exhaustion nearly broke me. Loneliness nearly broke me. Doing this, single parenting thing, it nearly broke me. My kid and his insane energy nearly broke me. Looking at...
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On Post-Martial Relations
... I should probably clarify, I'm not talking about getting down to it after you get married, I talked about that (and the lack of that before). No, I'm talking about the post-marriage sex that,...
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On Unsolicited Advice and the Art of Just Doing What Feels Right
Friends, I'm right in the middle of unchartered territories right now. The unknown waters of having people in your life, who want to know all the intimate moments of your personal life, the innermost...
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Screw This (and other thoughts on my imminent doom)
I'm pretty sure my kid is plotting my doom. He's a smart boy, I have no doubt he's inherited that streak of evil genius I loved in his father. I always knew that one day he would grow to be taller...
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Do Guys Really Care if You're a Single Mom?
pic source...This is something I stressed and got sick over so much in those early first weeks - in those moments I felt ok enough to imagine the prospect of dating again at some point. Interspersed...
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On Gratitude...
Lately I've been very fortunate to be part of The Abundant Mama Project with my friend Shawn over at Awesomely Awake - I truly believe in the power of the universe to provide just what you need at...
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What dating a single-mom looks like (and why it's probably all worth it)
After I wrote this post and read (and cried and felt disheartened by) all those websites that made out like dating a single-parent was the worst thing a guy could imagine, I tried to write a list of...
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Mouse Killer II - Return of the Damsel in Distress
Of all the life changes I've been through in the last six months most of them have been resoundingly positive. I no longer resent the people I spend most of my time with, I have dreams that don't...
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The Internet, your new matchmaker
I don't know if I mentioned before, but I never really told people when the ex and I broke up. I just updated my relationship status on Facebook and resumed life as usual. Little did I know that after...
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Craiglist Personals - where romance (and my dreams) go to die
As part of my ongoing adventures in self-loathing online dating and in the name of journalistic integrity, I feel it necessary to pursue every avenue in which the newly initiated could potential find...
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Twentythirteen
I wrote in my diary this time last year 'Twentytwelve is gonna be the year of the Taylor-Pages'. We had big plans, that little family of mine. Fate, it seems, has a sick sense of humour. Twentytwelve...
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No Parent is an Island
I'm going to say something fairly controversial here, but stick with me friends - I believe that there is a reason it takes two people to make a baby. That reason is because children need two parents....
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What I learned during the Mayan Apocalypse (and how my world already ended...
So, we're still here friends. No zombies. No crazy self-aware computer systems. No flaming skies and thunder. Just the end of Twinkies, the NHL and a stream of hilarious End of the World Confessions....
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Dating Advice from the most Unreliable Source Possible...
"Seriously, did you just ask me for dating advice?" There I was, little old me, sputtering and incredulous in the midst of a pirate themed birthday party for my friend's three year old twins. I get...
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2013
I used to have this theory about New Years - that how you spend it would reflect on the rest of the year to come. Let me rewind a couple of years for you, to prove my point. 2006-7 - the night of the...
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