Tag: love
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How being a single mother is just being a mother
“I love, more than anything, that I don’t have to take anyone else’s feelings or opinions into consideration when I do something… It’s just me and Jack against the world!” http://www.mothering.com/community/t/219427/why-i-love-being-a-single-mother/420 Here’s something I wrote recently during an argument: “Your membership of this family is not unconditional. I’m sorry if I made you think it […]
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The Art of Loving: International Women’s Day 2013
How beautiful would the world be if we loved others as much as we love ourselves? Not more, not less. We are as important as they are and they are as important as we are. There is an inspirational post from Medialens which I read recently and which felt appropriate for International Women’s Day: The […]
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Valentines Day
Here’s why I like Valentines Day, for one day a year everyone is focussing on love and happiness even if they’re alone and miserable. It’s the same reason I love graduation days even when I’m not graduating. The sense of achievement and success and possibilities is everywhere. The happiness was almost palpable as I used […]
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A letter to Mersina, 23 January 2013
I’ve had the strangest worry today that something would happen to me and Mersina wouldn’t have any memory of me. Before the day was over I wanted her to have something that she could keep – some sentiment from me. I’ve never particularly liked those letters that mums write to their children but this was […]
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Things I find when looking for love
Things I find when looking for love http://en.search.wordpress.com/?q=love Love is… snowflakes, lavender, smiles, cuddles, dolly, cupcakes, coffee, … http://en.wordpress.com/tag/love/ http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=love https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23love @reelstevehowey I think: “what’s ur angle mutha f’er?! I will f you up!!” I say: “Son, please dont pee on the carpet!” #love #vodka http://pinterest.com/search/?q=love Source: movies.nytimes.com via Lauren on Pinterest Spotify At Home […]
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Love and bedtime stories, an education
Love is a funny kind of thing. I fill my days either apologising to my daughter for my latest misdeeds or telling her how much I love her. Her father does the same and I imagine that we’re pretty similar to new parents all over the world. Sometimes she cries in her sleep, just one […]
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A Valentine’s treat for free, the e-book ‘Who wrote the book of love?’
In four works of fiction, Lee Siegel has written about love in all its forms: youthful, fated, wistful, erotic, foolish, intellectual, romantic, fatal, mysterious, and definitely carnal. Who Wrote the Book of Love? is his comedic chronicle of the romantic and sexual life of an American boy in the 1950s. Get your free e-book edition of Who Wrote the […]
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Baby: waiting and love
40 weeks, four days I have to write this sentiment down because I suspect it will be one of those things I shake my head at later. I am looking forward to the pain of child birth so long as it does ultimately deliver the child. I’ve started to long for any cramp or pain […]
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Valentine’s Day suggestions: a professional meal at home
Surprisingly perhaps, for someone who has been single for four and a half years, I adore Valentine’s Day. I enjoy all the things to do with celebrating love and affection and companionship and passion. I love watching movies like Moonstruck and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (apart from Kirsten Dunst) and I love treating […]
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How the baby went from mine to ours
For a few days in January I thought that I had lost my unique selling point of being a single mother doing it alone and making all my own decisions. I chose the baby’s name, where we lived, what religion, what activities, what school the baby attended etc. It was all mine. My baby, my […]
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