Posted by Delaine - July 28, 2009 - Co-Parenting, Parenting, Single Dads, Single Moms
I’m writing this at 1 a.m. and am completely exhausted. Yesterday evening, the sound of my seven-year-old screaming outside launched me out my front door in my socks. I ran towards him in the park, heart pounding. “I hit Kyle by accident!” he screamed. “I hit him in the head with my golf club!” I kept running, my son [...]
Posted by Delaine - June 23, 2009 - Grief/ Anger, Surviving
Chaos. The external components of my life keep shifting…giving way…breaking. In my mind’s eye I see the support beams of a house built over water, cracking…adjusting…dangling. Yet I know, I know that that house is ME: my bones, my soul, my reality. My muscles tense with anger. I’m gripping, hanging on, protesting. I am strong, [...]
