It wasn’t a fairy tale romance or love at first sight. A casual friendship took a turn at Cupid’s street. The friend turned into mon amour. In his company, I experienced beautiful feelings I never experienced before. After two decades on this planet this was a very new discovery and I wanted to enjoy it […]

Back in 2005 when I was in the US and still married, a dear friend – Auntie A, as my son calls her (back then she was a single mom) gifted my son a Christmas stocking. Handing over the stocking she said, ” From now on that’s where the card requesting Christmas presents from Santa […]

If you google ‘financial tips for single parents or single mothers’, you’ll get plenty of results. The goal of this piece however, is to give you some realistic tips of what is working and has worked for me as a single mother. Have a stable job My assumption is that if you’re reading this, you’re […]

I was cleaning my grinder the other day, when advice from my ex-mother in law flashed in my head “If you clean with dish washing liquid, it will be much easier”.  The other day, I was contemplating on whether to join my son in a new class or not, when similar instance with my ex-husband flashed in […]

Why hide away, I ask you. Aren’t these the best years of my life? When friends invited me out I would wonder how I could ever fit in again. They had their boyfriends/girlfriends or husbands/wives. Me? I am single. And to top it all I am a mom. So whatever would I have in common […]

Finally, its judgement day!! My mind is serene. It raced back to an evening 6 years ago. I could see a shadow of me waiting outside the Court mediation center, confused and flustered. My almost 4 year old was chatting cheerfully with her Dad and her paternal family. Everyone appeared pleased, but me. The talks […]