“Girl, let me tell you something: you kinda’ gettin’ up there. You’re running out of time and need to stop being so picky.” I was a 30-something when I heard those word from a male relative, newly moved into my just-purchased home as a single mother. Beyond the sheer audacity of such a statement,… Continue reading Nah, The Ladies Are Good: Single Life and Refusing to Settle For Less
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I Can’t, I Won’t, Just STOP: An Open Letter To Alexsandra Wright
Ladies & Gentlemen, please allow me to jump up on the soapbox for a hot minute about this right here, excuse the length of my rant because I am feeling ALL types of ways about the whole mess… I don’t enjoy seeing ANYONE struggle as a single parent and think that men/women who willfully neglect… Continue reading I Can’t, I Won’t, Just STOP: An Open Letter To Alexsandra Wright
Marriage ‘No,’ Babies ‘Yes’?
http://www.dallasnews.com/lifestyles/columnists/lorrie-irby-jackson/20120713-choice-to-have-children-outside-marriage-not-ideal.ece A couple of years into life as a divorced single mother, my then-kindergartener Darius asked me The Question: “Mom, why didn’t you have any other kids?” I used a tactful and age-appropriate version of the truth to respond. “Well, baby, a while after you were born, I realized that the marriage wasn’t going to… Continue reading Marriage ‘No,’ Babies ‘Yes’?