by Lisa-Jo | May 29, 2014 | Just plain hard, Motherhood, No such thing as just a mom
In all, 13.7 million U.S. households with children under age 18 now include mothers who are the main breadwinners. Of those, 5.1 million, or 37 percent, are married, while 8.6 million, or 63 percent, are single. ~Pew Research Study via Huffington Post Like it or not,...
by Lisa-Jo | May 27, 2014 | Just plain hard, Motherhood
I’m reading this book on gangs and it couldn’t possibly apply less to me. So why’m I underlining every other sentence and dog-earing the pages about the homies in East LA, then? I’m a white, suburban mom with three kids who don’t know jack about being in or out or...
by Lisa-Jo | May 22, 2014 | Five Minute Friday
::So, here’s the skinny: every Friday for going on four years now hundreds of people have joined a kind of writing flash mob over here. (Yup, these are Five Minute Friday writers at a meetup at the Allume Blogging Conference last year). We write for five minutes flat....
by Lisa-Jo | May 20, 2014 | Cheering for you, Motherhood, surprised by motherhood
So there’s this mom I know. Her husband flat out left her to raise those kids alone. And she cried every day they were getting home and off the bus that she wasn’t there to see. She leans over her keyboard and tells me with these bright eyes green with tears, “I know...
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by Lisa-Jo | May 18, 2014 | Motherhood, Raising Boys
He ran next to me the whole time. And I was ashamed I couldn’t run as fast as him. He’s eight and I’ll be 40 this August. And I watched him choose. He could have run fast and far up ahead where his friends were, where the best times were, where the winners were. But...
