By Wendy Rhein Mom? Will you make that grape cake for me? The one with the orange zest glaze? I swear, I almost welled up with tears at the very sound of these words coming from my 7-year-old. The very fact that he knows what zest is, or that a grape cake does not […]
Adoption: Just When You Think You’ve Heard it All
By: Wendy Rhein So I went on a date last week. Just a drink. This was my dip-a-toe-in-the-frigid-and-murky-pond-of-dating-in-your-40s. Hold your applause and keep the Bride’s magazine in hiding. He seemed like a nice enough man, also in his 40s, divorced, employed, no (obvious) criminal record and when speaking and writing, he communicated in complete sentences […]
Adoption: Forever Family
My Worst Nightmare: The Daycare Lost My Child
Single Mother: The Door is Always Open, Part 2
Single Mother: Changing Seasons in a Family
By Wendy Rhein The crisp days of fall are my favorite ones of the year. More than any other season I channel my youth in the fall months. Friday night high school football games, sitting on surprisingly cold metal bleachers behind the marching band. Raking leaves. The feeling of breaking the rules by being out […]
Parenting Young Children: A New Four-Letter Word
Ten Things I Never Thought I’d Say
First Day of School: Stepping Away
Girlfriends That Gather Year After Year
By Wendy Rhein These are the women I knew when I was carefree, though I may not have known it at the time. Pre-mortgages, pre-spouses, pre-children, we lived lives as single, career-minded, and curious young women in New York where almost anything felt possible if we wanted it badly enough. We went to the theater […]
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