by Carolyn on July 4, 2009
Oh what a difficult road lies ahead for the person taking on the role of ‘step parent’. It is a struggle. An uphill battle. The experts give some insight on how to make it a little less painful but all agree that there will be mountainous bumps along the way. They also list a number [...]
by Carolyn on October 16, 2009
I was given a blog award today!
It’s so neat to be acknowledged as a great blog on someone else’s blog. That they would use their own corner of the internet to point readers to mine is a true honor. But it made me remember that I’ve been terribly delinquent in showing my appreciation for a [...]
by Carolyn on September 22, 2009
I was struck by a blog post this week. This isn’t where I was planning on going with this second installment on parental alienation syndrome (PAS), but it is completely relevant and I think it brings up some interesting issues surrounding alienation in a family post divorce.
The post is from a great blog called Single [...]
by Carolyn on January 18, 2010
I love the work that Jacque Fletcher does on her blog “Becoming a Stepmom“. I did an interview with her (which by the way didn’t feel like an interview at all) where she made me so comfortable that I would have told her anything. And she has written a wonderful book entitled “The Career Girl’s [...]
by Carolyn on June 30, 2009
My friend Frank Fradella produces a weekly podcast called LINGO. It is a collection of hand picked world pop music with the premise behind it being that music in and of itself transcends language and culture. And I think he’s right. I’m not a big listener of world music, but I’ve really enjoyed listening to [...]
by Carolyn on June 25, 2009
Our diversity amazes me. Some of us were very young when it happened. Some of us were school aged or even teenagers. Some of us have watched a parent or two remarry. Some may have even sat through a few marriages. Some got step siblings. Some watched their parents have more children. Although we are [...]
by Carolyn on June 25, 2009
Are you an ACOD (adult child of divorce)? I am. I think being an acronym is great. If I could have chosen any acronym, I might have chosen something a little more glorious, like a VIP or BFF. But I also could have done worse. I could be an SOB or worse still a POS! [...]
by Carolyn on October 3, 2009
Our regularly scheduled posts will be back shortly. I’ve run into a bit of a glitch called ‘my daughter’s first birthday party’ and it’s putting a serious kink in my bloggy time. I feel badly for not posting something really new, fresh and exciting for you to read; like the final post in [...]
by Carolyn on September 29, 2009
My parents met, got married and had me. I’m alive today and living a richer life than I ever could have imagined. I’ll always be grateful to them for giving me my greatest gift – life.
My parents got divorced. And I still feel a little sad, angry and hurt by that. I sometimes wonder if [...]
by Carolyn on June 29, 2009
Co-parenting is all the rage for divorced parents. With Bruce Willis and Demi Moore as it’s poster children; it calls for parents to work together in the same manner they would had they remained married with respect to their parenting roles. And as difficult as it must be, the experts are unanimous in their agreement [...]