My son came down with a fever this past weekend. Stuffy nose, tired, achy. He had a mixture of cold and flu symptoms. No fun for him, at all. When Monday hit, he was still sick. No problem, I...

If youth is wasted on the young, perhaps old age is being wasted on me. I was recently in a coffee house when two younger women checked me out. Yes, the older men younger women fantasy flashed...

You meet somebody new. You enjoy a coffee date or martini together. You'd like to see them again, but you don't quite feel the spark, the chemistry, the je ne sais quois...

I recently celebrated a birthday, and due to pre-scheduled activities involving our kids, my ex and I were in the same place for much of the day, then together even longer despite my desire for birthday time alone with my kids. The experience reminde...

My teenage daughter has her driver’s license, her own (used) truck, her own cell phone, and her own set of friends. In other words, I’m starting to not see her much lately. She’ll take off...

There’s a man who is totally smitten with a woman. Calling him lovestruck doesn’t give his feelings justice. He literally cannot live without her, he is that head over heels in love. As for the woman? She’s a vengeful beeyatch. Seems someone in...

Cool Parent points. If you’re a parent, you know what those are. You earn them when your kids don’t think you’re a nerd, geek, or life-ruining jerk. i.e., you do something cool. Seems a few parents in the parenting blogosphere have been scoring...

My teen daughter is a good girl. She gets good grades, participates in sports, helps around the house when I ask her (er… make that, she helps around the house when I give her gas money for her truck!) So when one of the Hot Moms asked at the Hot...

A friend recently asked why my single parent blog covers such wide-ranging topics. Of course, there are single parenting tips and advice about divorce separation, co-parenting with an ex, raising children in a two-home family, child custody agreements....

My 17-year-old daughter is an angel! So are her friends!! They are super nice kids! Or so we’ve always thought. Now her brother and I are wondering if she’s a little devil, and we’ve been sheltering one of the mean kids all these years. My son...