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Single Dad Life: Guilt, Overscheduling, and Overcompensating
The first time I heard about overcompensating, it was a story about someone else. A friend of a friend—a single, divorced mother—had bought her daughter an elaborate makeup…
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The tangled hair era: A Dad’s journey in hair management.
When I first started my single parenting journey, people—particularly older women—used to marvel at my ability to tie a ponytail. My daughter, around age four, had long hair…
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Carlisle Classic Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies (or Raisin, if You Dare)
Years ago, when I bought my first house, I found an old cookbook tucked in a kitchen drawer. It was a photocopied collection of recipes from a local…
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Burning the banana bread and building a family kitchen
The first time I tried to make banana bread, it was a spectacular success—depending on how you define success. At the time, I was single and had decided…
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What We Take Up the Mountain—and What We Leave Behind
The first time we went up “the mountain,” it was early fall—just a couple of weeks after we moved into separate houses. “The mountain,” in reality, is a…
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A weekend in Ottawa (Fall Romance Edition)
If you think Ottawa is just home to stuffed-up bureaucrats and overstuffed politicians—you’re not wrong. Originally elevated by Queen Victoria from a small lumber town to the national…
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