Five encouraging words: “You can do it, Mom!” Yesterday, I furiously peddled the bike to get to the top of the hill, engulfed in humid woods with my pink bandanna wrapped around my neck. Heaven forbid a mosquito would land on me. A terrain very different from my real home. I am a transplant to […]
How To Survive as a Single Parent: Reflections From 2019
Cheers to you, as we start the new year! Two thousand and twenty or twenty-twenty, however you prefer to say it, is officially upon us. As I was busily writing the crystal ball post I promised you, my mind was flashing back over 2019 and all of the great progress our website has made since the official […]
Honorary Medal for the Single Parent
“You deserve an honorary medal for what you have done. You are to be highly commended.” ~Mr. Hill Accept a Compliment This beautiful compliment was given to me when I was a single parent. Mr. Hill had been witness to my life. This compliment was extremely difficult to hear and accept. I did not want […]
Expression of Healing
Outsider Removed from the circle of life and standing on the perimeter I am an observer looking into the circle I sit at the café table next to the window although I am not really there I am removed as I watch the numerous people on the sidewalk as they stroll by Smiles and laughter […]