How Do You Learn Independence?...

grandma.of.a.lesser.god and her granddaughter.of.a.lesser.god I got the call just after noon on Saturday. My mom asked me how I was feeling (I had been sick almost all week) and if I was making progress on a final paper due on the 17th. It seemed to be a mundane conversation. Then she paused and said...

On (Not) Becoming a Stepmom: An Overshar...

I’d been dating in New York for ten years.  I’d had my misadventures. I knew that into every dating life a little heartbreak must fall. But this time I hit the exacta:  I was not only dating an older man, I wound up breaking my heart over a six-year-old girl. Of course, I fell in love with...