Archive for October 2008

With only a few days left before the election it has become all too apparent that politics – and, more specifically, political smack-talk — is trickling down to our youngest population. For the last few nights Drama Girl and T-Rex have been chanting their candidate of choice’s name to me – the one that does [...]

Every night this week the kids and I have had something going on after school and work: Monday: attended a friend’s jewelry party with Drama Girl while T-Rex attended a Cub Scouts meeting with The Ex Tuesday: worked from home followed by an orthodontist consult for Drama Girl followed by errands followed by the annual Brownies’ campfire and an evening hayride [...]

Well, it’s time for Dinner for One again at The Imperfect Parent! This month I tried to get into the spirit of the Halloween season and offer a light, yet practical view on modern dating methods as a single parent. Admittedly, I was on an online/speed dating hiatus when I met FlyBoy, but I still [...]

Five years ago I took my kids on a nice October day to a local farm to pick out pumpkins for Halloween. It was during my first holiday season as a divorced mom, and I remember feeling determined — DETERMINED — that we would have a fun day (dammit!). Back in 2003, I pulled a cart [...]

One of the hardest things to do when you haven’t been blogging regularly is to write your first post-hiatus entry. Say, like this one, which starts with a non-statement of the obvious to fill space. So, rather than think through all the options for restarting my blog with vim and vigor as I’ve been doing [...]

(at least as much as any writer can be “done” tinkering around with her masterpiece) Yes, I finished my latest round of polishing! The manuscript is being copied at Kinko’s as I type this, all 352 pages, 68,300+ words of it. (I’m not saying every word is a jewel, but it is something to see [...]