Creating holiday traditions with your child when you’re divorced can be extremely tricky. Especially when you have to alternate holidays year to year. In one home Santa doesn’t wrap gifts. In the other home he does. In one home Santa …
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Susan McMartin
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When I look back on it I’m not sure who was more excited to go to My Gym every Thursday afternoon for those eight weeks—my daughter, who was 5 at the time, or me (who was very much not 5 at …
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When I need to quiet the demons in my head — and believe me, they are loud — I walk. Usually some form of a hike. And a hike for me is anything in dirt form that tilts slightly uphill. …
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I have been saying for years — forget the Trader Joe’s cookbook, what they really need to come out with is a How to Treat a Woman book. The men who work at Studio City Trader Joe’s are like superheroes …
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I knew I was taking a chance when we left that morning, but for some reason I thought I was going to pull a Tabitha and think that maybe if I crossed my hands, twitched my nose and blinked a …
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There are many thoughts that go through a person’s mind when they’ve just gotten divorced. Thoughts like, Where did I go wrong? How did we get here? What now? And… Dang, who have I always wanted to have sex with? …
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