…my marriage vows.
Word on the street is that TechBoo has already started on his.
It’s like, “physician heal thyself.” Kinda. I can write other stuff in my sleep. But this…not so much.
I’ll just procrastinate some more, and go find a poem for Li’l Mama (my oldest future bonus daughter) to read. Let this marinate…
I had some baklava with my lunch at this Mediterranean place today. Baklava is all honey-yumminess, but mostly I love it because my Nay-Nay introduced me to it when I was a kid. Nay-Nay was always bringing the world to me in a white paper bag or covered styrofoam bowl. I wrote a tribute to [...]
My latest post is up at The Faster Times!
Why is today made of awesome sauce, you ask? Why is it gonna be lovely?
First, this afternoon, El Ex and I are signing on the dotted line with our fabulous agent, Danielle Chiotti of Upstart Crow Literary Agency. Danielle will rep up us, shopping our co-parenting book proposal around to publishing houses. Fingers crossed for [...]
“You’re super-smart and a great writer, so…”
I love conversations that start out like that. I love it even more when the remainder of the conversation isn’t someone trying to get me to write for free.
Unfortunately, that’s exactly what has happened more than a few times after I hung out my proverbial shingle and offered up [...]
Check out my latest at The Faster Times. Here’s an excerpt:
“These days, it seems that the Brits are on the cutting edge of divorce-related commerce. From the folks across the pond who first brought us divorce cakes and divorce gift cards, we now have divorce gift registries. Debenhams, a British department store chain [...]
Since TechBoo started a new job last fall, he doesn’t have the same access to email and phone that he did in his previous job. So when he texted me to see how my meeting went this morning with the agent who is interested in the co-parenting book that El Ex and I are [...]
While searching for a photo to accompany the post below (which is a cross-post from CoParenting101.org), I was surprised to discover that Ozzie Davis and Ruby Dee had explored open marriage and wrote about the experience in their joint biography.
A few months ago, I read a guest blog at Stepmother’s Milk by Kela Price, [...]
I have hit the motherhood trifecta. I am a mama by birth, by adoption, and, in exactly 80 days, I will become a stepmama. So, I’m thinking about stepmotherhood a lot these days, and of course, reading books by stepmoms. Books like…
First things first: Let’s clear up any misconceptions you may have [...]
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 [...]
