I have come to accept that my parenting and/or co-parenting is not everyone’s cup of tea, but I have to do what is best for my son and our family. Parenthood is hard enough without worrying about everyone else’s opinion. Seven years ago when I was going through my divorce, I typed into Google “non-custodial […]
I wanted to give my son what I didn’t have: the feeling that he didn’t have to choose, and that he had one big family. “Why would you not get a dog?” My friend is asking this because I was talking about wanting to adopt a pet. “Well, my son is allergic to cats and […]
I have already found “the one” — it’s me! I had one goal in life: to find a husband. Almost everything I did was with that intention. I joined the dance team in high school because the cute and popular boys were on the football and basketball teams. I dressed in ways I felt would […]
“This is what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real.” When I tell people that I live in a cooperative house, I imagine that this is what they think of: lots of partying, fighting, and sex. Or they think that I live in a halfway house and I just got out of […]
