By Barbara Matousek As we crossed the bridge in to town this morning the sun from the southwest had already risen and the sky was that crisp, mystical blue that always comes just before the coldest temperatures of our Minnesota winters. To the southeast a jet heading north left a long white trail behind it, […]
Busy Single Mother: Black Leather and Oxygen
Halloween in the St. Mary’s Parking Lot
Girls Can Drive Dumptrucks and Boys Can Dance
Single Mother: Roadside
“When We’re All Dead And Not Here, Who Will Be Here?”
Single Mom Examining Her Dating Options
By: Barbara Matousek We are sitting on the wooden deck on the east side of the aquatic center watching our four-year-old boys float on their backs and “do big scoops” and play a game called Mr. Fox What Time Is It, when an older father leads his daughter past us and back towards Sam’s pre-school […]
Is This Single Mother of Two Having a Midlife Crisis?
By: Barbara Matousek I’m not sure what I was thinking. Maybe I wasn’t actually thinking. Mostly now I think “midlife crisis.” Why else would a 45-year-old single mother of two children under five commit to something as time consuming and crazy as a Ragnar relay? For anyone who doesn’t know what these are, they are running […]
The Question of China
By: Barbara Matousek “Mom, what does C-H-I-N-A spell?” He asks from the backseat. This is his latest used-to-be-cute-but-is-now-really-annoying obsession. This morning as I was making pancakes and his baby sister screamed for bananas and milk and uppie-uppie-uppie, Sam read me the titles of all 50 of his Pokemon cards, frequently mixing up the T’s and […]
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