From the category archives:

Falling in Love

When you know

July 8, 2009

My aunt and I were talking on the phone about my French-Canadian fiance. We would be getting married in her back yard in just a few days. I was frantically planning the wedding so we could beat an INS deadline to kick him out of the country. “So, do you have that feeling?” she asked. [...]

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Pillow Talk

June 24, 2009

do you want more kids? I started this discussion in the single moms forum the other day and the responses are really passionate. Leave a comment there or here.

And let me know what you think about the idea of me – having twins. I mean what do you do if the love of your life happens to have a twin gene, a fricking twin gene. Just my luck, right? Oh me, oh my.

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Believe

June 11, 2009

I used to have a journal with this word on the front. Believe. “Imagine”, I would write at the end of every entry. Inspired by John Lennon, I imagined everyone in the world – happy, at peace, at a standstill – just being. So I would write the word every day hoping, some how, it [...]

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Everything you’ll ever need…

June 10, 2009

to know about being a dating single mom. A few days ago, I spent hours sorting through my archives to produce a lovely table of contents to this blog. It’s funny to put your own life into categories, but I think you’ll enjoy them. Like Chapter 11 – “The Ex Files: the Men I’ve Dated [...]

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The weekend

June 7, 2009

On Saturday morning John Bear (he now has a first name) and I headed up north to Cleveland for his cousin’s wedding. Between meeting his entire family and the ceremony we took a drive and made a few pit stops along the way. The first to snap a shot of this and the second to [...]

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That Couple

June 1, 2009

Larry is in his seventies but his eyes are young. He had a major hand in creating the Hocking Valley Scenic Railway, a thriving tourist destination for Athens County and his energy seems to be endless. He’ll never acknowledge his age with words or by his actions and I find this amazing and inspiring. We’ve [...]

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The non-date, that wasn’t

May 19, 2009

Continued from the Beginning.  We picked a pizza and wine shop for our networking dinner. Or was it a date? I wasn’t sure. Our e-mails had been borderline flirtatious all week and there was definitely some initial chemistry when we met. Those eyes of his…  We had originally planned on having lunch after meeting at [...]

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His eyes, the Governor & Dave.

May 7, 2009

I could swim in his eyes. The only bad thing about being in the dark with the bear is not being able to see them – ice blue, almost transparent and surrounded by his fuzzy face with a smile he saves only for me. The two together – the smile with those eyes melt me [...]

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Breaking Single Mom Love News

March 4, 2009

Mommy Pie has fallen and so has her man. If you’ve been reading my blog for a while you’ll know that Mommy Pie is by far one of my favorite single mom bloggers. And even though she wasn’t looking at all, and even though she lives out in the middle of no where, she’s found [...]

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Single Moms and Love

December 7, 2008

Finally! My video of Morgan and Ronnie is finished. We shot this on my trip to Kentucky with Mr. Man a few weeks ago… I think you’ll find their advice on being a dating single mom and finding love incredibly valuable. As you know, there are no easy answers. Some of the questions we address [...]

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