Covid! We all lived through this global freezing of time. And, we all lost something to this virus: some lost loved ones, some lost celebrations, and others lost time. For me, Covid stole the waning months of my son’s childhood years. Since this global shutdown, I’ve found myself in a state of slow mourning. I […]
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As a solo mama, I serve as both mom and dad to my son. All things parenting – providing financially, running the household, driving, shopping, sports, maintaining the yard, dragging out the trash bins – fall on me. I don’t say this to complain, rather to give some insight into solo parenting. As my son
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“This is a difficult country to look different in-the United States of Advertising, as Paul Krassner puts it-and if you are too skinny or too tall or dark or weird or short or frizzy or homely or poor or nearsighted, you get crucified. I did” ~ Anne Lamott (Bird by Bird). When did we become
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This is the first entry of my future novel. I plan to use my blog as an accountability tool by writing snippets of my novel and posting them here: Emerly returned to the place where he died, but nothing looked the same. It was unrecognizable. The line of trees had been cut down and the
22 years! That’s how long it’s been since I’ve had a first night of sleep on a brand new mattress. Odd title and opening, I know, but bear with me; I’m going somewhere meaningful with this 🙂 In the wake of purchasing my son his first brand-new mattress, other than the crib mattress he hardly
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To understand where the term “solo mama-ing” came from, we have to go back 15 years: Saturday, May 9th of 2009, changed my life! I remember this day for a number of reasons: it was the day before Mother’s day; my, then, “boyfriend” and I were going dirt bike riding; but most importantly, I became
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