Raw and Honest Blog of a New Single Mom

I am a single mother of a biracial baby boy just trying to make it on my own. This journey is hard, yet rewarding. Blogging is my therapy, these words are my heart, and people doing better and being inspired by what I have written is my passion and hope.

Falling Into Place

I just realized, well I’m sensing, that things in my life are starting to fall into place. Not every thing, but some things. Important things. For one, I just noticed that all of the toxic people in my life have been weeded out in some way or another. The last few people that I held [...]

The Appeal of Dating Single Mothers

When I first learned I was to become a single mother I was very worried about how others might view me, especially potential partners when it came time for me to date. Dating a single parent always seemed less than ideal. I would hear words like “baggage”, “damaged goods” thrown around along with the unappealing [...]

Being Prostituted by a “Friend”

Back in March I wrote an entry about removing toxic friends from my life including a guy named S, who formally was one of my closest friends. S is a drug addict, alcoholic, insanely immature, dramatic and has absolutely no ambition in life. He was cool to be friends with for an occasional hang out [...]