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#139. Goodbye For Now.
The Single Mother Diaries was intended to humourously probe the female identity and dissect the multitude of impossible roles expected and/or demanded of her to maintain simultaneously, including that of mother, wife, income earner and individual. The first person narrative account in these Diaries were …
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#131. Single Mother Family Holiday Happiness!
I can’t believe the holiday season is back already! Where does the time go? I am loving the holidays this year which is quite something as they had depressed the shit out of me over the past decade. It was 13 years ago that I …
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#121. Online Dating Neanderthals
Now that my broken foot is healing, albeit slowly and painfully, and I’m not looking like a resident of a bell tower anymore, I figured that I should get back into the dating world. I feel good about myself and am in a good place. …
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#101. Taking Charge
With much gratitude, I receive a lot of emails from women who share their stories of heartbreak, fear, depression and feelings of worthlessness as they go through a divorce or find themselves embarking on single motherhood for a variety of reasons. The early months and …
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#100. Re-Invention? Restoration!
Over the past 99 posts, this blog has captured my journey through divorce, poverty, depression, bad dates, fear and motherhood en route to re-invention. Re-invention was my goal. To become the woman whom I thought I should be was what I was working towards. The …
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#94. Where’s Your Husband?
“Is your husband coming?” “Who did you marry?” These questions or variations thereof have been asked throughout my tenure as a single mom for the past twelve years. It’s bad enough when you are a single woman over a certain age as relatives and work …
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#91. One Flew Over the Bar Mitzvah’s Nest
You know how I was so excited about being able to throw my son a proper Bar Mitzvah? Glee filled to have the money to spend on this extravaganza? Thrilled to provide this rite of passage that seems to be very important despite our non-practicing …
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#79. Single Mom Heroes
What a week! It’s always something. Sickness, contemplation and a natural disaster. A full week indeed. Mother nature is pissed off and I don’t blame her. People are just not behaving very well in this world. Greed, seething anger and violence is running rampant all …
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#77. The Mistress
I used to think that the only thing worse than a dumb man was a dumb woman because a dumb woman allows a dumb man to be dumb. I used to think that the women who fooled around with married men were the absolute worst …
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#73. The Born Again, The Moon & The Bathroom
I went on a date with a seriously committed Church going man. Being Jewish, and not a religious one at that, I wasn’t sure that we would have much in common. But he was tall and he had hair. Period. I figured that a church …
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