Today, a co-worker excitedly asked me if I subscribe to HBO. I don’t.
She went on to tell me that she watched a Rosie O’Donnell program on HBO called “A Family Is A Family Is A Family”. She said it was a great show and she thought of me right away when she saw it.
Continue readingI refuse to believe all that venomous slander I hear about divorced dads…. Disneyland Dads… Deadbeat Dads… and everything in between.
Continue readingI mentioned before that my mom is getting married again. She made the announcement about two months ago and I’m still trying to wrap my head around the whole thing. I don’t know the guy. I only met him once, so it’s hella weird for me to accept the fact that this stranger is going to be my “stepfather”. But then, I also feel a glimmer of excitement because finally there will be an Official Title assigned to someone in my F-Word.
Continue readingI’ve been thinking about the way my parents communicated after they separated. Or rather- what they talked about.
I was never put in the middle between their Parental Matters…
Continue readingAngela was miserably married for more than a decade. She and Mac had it all: a presentable homestead, healthy offspring, comfortable cars, vacations, savings… you get the idea. But like I said, Angela was miserable. She spent years upon years losing sleep over the fact that she was pretending to be someone she wasn’t, living a life she found unbearable. Eventually, she couldn’t pretend any longer. She painfully told Mac that she just didn’t see any other way around it- she wanted a divorce.
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