As 2009 draws to a close, I’m just as susceptible to year-end Top 10 lists as the next pop culture junkie. I’m also fond of New Year’s Resolutions, so I’ve combined the two to bring you…
10 for 2010: Co-Parenting Resolutions for the New Year!
Drawing from the headlines of celebrity co-parenting “don’t’s”, the experiences of CoParenting101.org [...]
I’m late with this, but only recently did I find out that the piece below would not be running as a guest-post at Psychology Today after all. Some sort of bureaucratic misunderstanding, but I still thank Meredith Resnick for the invitation.
As Christmas approaches, my daughters and I have been revisiting treasured picture books that tell [...]
So I went to El Ex’s house early yesterday evening with gifts, pug puppies (food, wee-wee pads, deodorizer, treats), and the makings of my crab dip in tow. Since we split up nearly 5 years ago, it’s been our custom to spend Christmas Eve and Christmas Day together with our daughters. Now that we’ve both [...]
Getting married is nothing; it is assuming the responsibility of marriage that counts.—Haitian proverb
Like hopefully anyone who remarries, TechBoo and I are very conscious of “doing it better” the second time around. So the above proverb from Lifelines: The Black Book of Proverbs really resonates. Over on Co-Parenting101.or, we’re giving away a copy of Lifelines, [...]
…being on the phone with TechBoo as he and my future bonus-daughters sing “This Christmas” and various and sundry songs by New Edition. Bonus-Daughter #2 does a nice rendition of this:
And the evening’s finale? TechBoo serenading me with this:
But wait…Bonus Daughter #2 is back…with this:
And she hit every note!
But of course TechBoo wants to have [...]
Your Hands
“I’m writing a poem in my head right now,”
I tell you this morning as you brace me
and embrace me
to make love.
“A poem about your hands,” I whisper,
“About what they are doing…
…right now. And what they did yesterday,
and how your hands tell my body’s story,
how your hands tell the story
of us.”
When you put your hands [...]
So tomorrow night, TechBoo and I get to celebrate another first together: Our first Chanukah party. What to bring? I’m leaning towards a bottle of wine and the jelly doughnuts (which, coincidentally, will come from the new kosher Dunkin’ Donuts that recently opened up nearby).
Saturday night, the celebrating continues with a birthday slumber party for [...]
Props to my Techboo, my best friend, for remembering the anniversary of when we first met, 3 years ago. I forgot, but let me make it up to you, dear:
“The reading was sublime. All mama-writers. Lots of blood, sex, body fluids, wine.”
These 3 sentences were about all I could muster on Twitter when I returned home last night from the Unblurred reading.
I was pretty okay when I left the house. By phone, Techboo had done his loving cheerleader thing. The first time I read [...]
