{CoffeeBreak} My Son And the Knife: When Mental Illness Turns a Boy Into a Man
By Michelle Bond My son was a week old the morning his father threatened me with a butcher knife because I tried to wake him...
{Bringing Up Boogie} Single Mom Dating Is Confusing And Kinda Sucks Ass
I've been single since before Boogie was born. I was not with his father while I was pregnant or any time after that. I've dated...
{Bringing up Boogie} For Colored Girls Who Are Pregnant, Alone & Unable to See the Rainbow
By BASSEY IKPI The doctor says I've lost weight in the last two weeks. The doctor says that the growth is even bigger now than...
{Bringing Up Boogie} Pumpkin Patches, Pumas & Play Dates: When Parenting Solo Takes On New Meaning
Photo courtesy of Jr Conlin This weekend, Boogie had his first play date with a new single father friend of mine. Now, I'm generally against...
{Bringing Up Boogie} I Gave Birth To My Son, But He Gave Me Life
Bassey and Boogie It’s Love. By BASSEY IKPI A few years ago when he was two, Boogie was so very sick. He would be lethargic...
Watch This! Diary of a Single Mom
It’s a story that always seems to be told from the underbelly the single mom as the long-suffering, community-ruining, government program-draining, man-eating, neck-swizzling baby mama...
Crocs, Muffets and Parent Spies To The Left
By BASSEY IKPI E is a very friendly little boy and I know that most mothers are jumpier than I am about whom their kid...
Is $5,000 Per Month In Child Support Enough For T.I.'s Kids?
I'm a card-carrying member of the Second Wives Club, and so I understand what it means to write the child support check to the first...
