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My friend Mel sat across from me at the neighborhood pub, a sigh painting her pretty face weary.  A sparkling carafe of purple sangria sat between us on the chipped wooden table, lemon slices and ice cubes bobbing invitingly at the surface.  I looked up and watched pub patrons ambling at the pool …

I don’t believe I can have it all.  I don’t mean that in a negative way, just realistically. As a single Mom, (taking romantic love out of the equation) looking only at the triage of home, work, and child,  I can only keep two happy.  Most of the time, it’s my home that is the neglected of the three, …

I’m wearing my green knit hat, which is an excellent sign that I wasn’t able to make it in the shower that morning. My son’s lunch kit contains Alphagetti, of which I’m not proud, and a small green salad with chopped nuts and tomatoes, with which I am rather pleased. …

Kristin

Single Mom at Work

ve all experienced it at one time or another: The Mommy Drive-By. When a someone — a relative, another mom, a total stranger — takes it upon herself to question your judgment or criticize your parenting. Single moms get flak about their social lives. Step moms are looked down upon for not being “a real parent.†Breast-feeding mamas get hit when they nurse their child in public; formula-feeding mothers get the evil eye when they whip out a bottle instead of a breast. Mothers from all walks of

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a date last night, I made disastrous pasta and I'll tell you later tonight but at this moment, Nolan and I have some forest ambling and crab searching to do. If you're really jonesing for some information about my fatskinny, I have a fresh column up here.

I finally saw a flash of bling on her finger. Damn! Talk about mood killer, I know I should have looked beforehand. But she had her hand in her lap the whole time, and scoping out a ring would have been so obvious. Plus, sometimes women wear rings when they aren’t married, to ward off men. (Just as sometimes men don’t wear rings when they should.) I’m pretty direct, so I asked if there’s a lucky guy in her life. Yep, she’s married. But she said she was totally flattered that I hit on her. She ordered a

Posted by Kristin D on June 18th, 2008

I finally saw a flash of bling on her finger. Damn! Talk about mood killer, I know I should have looked beforehand. But she had her hand in her lap the whole time, and scoping out a ring would have been so obvious. Plus, sometimes women wear rings when they aren’t married, to ward off men. (Just as sometimes men don’t wear rings when they should.) I’m pretty direct, so I asked if there’s a lucky guy in her life. Yep, she’s married. But she said I was totally flattered that I hit on her. She ordered a margarita

letting kids know that mom and dad are doing it. Parents, would you let your kids know you have sex, and if so, to what degree and what age? This post was inspired from reading these blogs, check’em out: You-Know-What-us Interruptus Ms. Single Mama Sex and the Single Mom