Archive: February, 2009

In the year 2000, my mom and Dad got divorced. He left my then 57-year-old mom for another woman. But this wasn’t the first time he’d cheated – his philanderings had begun back in the 70s. “Why didn’t leave him way back then?” I recently asked my mom. “Don’t you wish you had?” “Delaine, it [...]

On our nights alone without kids, we have choices: what to do, who to talk to, and most importantly, how to feel.  I will be honest with you – for months after getting divorced, I spent many a night alone grieving. The stretches of time in front of me served as feeding time for my [...]