A journalist and author's musings on love, marriage, divorce and life
Posted in Divorce, Family, Parenting, Uncategorized on Nov 23rd, 2011
As we slide into the Thanksgiving holiday, I am feeling pretty thankful for a lot of things, including the chance to have met and been able to profile Dixie James and her daughter Holly. Their story is pretty inspiring; Holly was born with Down syndrome, and anyone who has a special needs child knows how […]
Posted in Family, Parenting, Uncategorized, Work on Oct 7th, 2011
We are looking at colleges. Well, more accurately, we are not looking at colleges, although we should be. My youngest is a senior in high school and the clock is ticking for things like recommendation letters, applications, testing. It’s overwhelming, yet I feel confident things will eventually fall in place because he knows what he […]
Posted in Cohabitation, Dating, Expectations, Family, Marriage, Parenting, Singles on Sep 24th, 2011
I am about to say something that many might consider blasphemous — I don’t think couples should live together. Now, before you cast me as some pro-marriage, uber-conservative who has been reading one too many National Marriage Project (NMP) studies, be assured I am not. At the risk of sounding somewhat Orwellian, let me clarify: […]
Posted in Family, Marriage, Parenting, Uncategorized on Sep 23rd, 2011
I was at a memorial service recently, the most moving and beautiful service I’d ever been to. Fortunately, I haven’t been to too many — although I know that will change in future years. My friend’s husband was a famed illustrator and a beloved art teacher, and the speakers — whether friends, fellow teachers and […]
Posted in Family, Parenting, Uncategorized on Aug 31st, 2011
Walking home from a hike on the Dipsea trail this past weekend I ran into someone I know as a friend of a friend and other overlapping circles and so I stopped to chitchat. “I love reading about your kids on Facebook,” she said to me as I stooped to pet her dogs. Oh — […]
Posted in Divorce, Family, Marriage, Parenting, Stereotypes on Aug 12th, 2011
As far as celebrity splits go, Olivia Wilde and Tao Ruspoli’s seems pretty easy. At least the “Cowboys & Aliens” actress and the prince, married for eight years, don’t have any kids. But that might have been the problem; childfree couples divorce more often than couples who have at least one child, according to researchers, […]
Posted in Parenting, Uncategorized on Aug 11th, 2011
A neighbors’ son turned 4 last week and celebrated with a party at a local fire station. As I passed him and his mom on their walk downtown this past weekend, he was wearing the fireman hat from his party. I smiled. A fireman birthday party — I remember those days! I also remember the […]
As I made my way up Highway 101 to work today, I caught just a snippet of the news on the radio — a handful of teenagers had been mauled by a bear in the Alaskan wilderness. What are teenagers doing in the wilds of Alaska, I thought to myself, and then just as quickly […]
It’s been quite the month at the house I share with my two sons, 20 and 17. Lying, stonewalling, sexting, violence, unprotected sex — you name it, and we’ve lived through it. Oh, I don’t mean that my kids were doing that — that is what’s been on the news as we followed former California […]
Posted in Dating, Divorce, Marriage, Parenting on Jul 5th, 2011
I have been feeling a little like the queen of ugly. I had no idea a blog post written tongue-in-cheek about whether women should marry attractive men or not would create such a furor — Jezebel thinks I’m blaming women for men’s bad behavior (I’m not); Rush Limbaugh thinks I’m a militant feminist (wow, is […]
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