Frankie Shaw’s new Showtime comedy SMILF about a twenty-something single mother is raw, gritty, and real because—guess what—she’s been through it all. For Shaw, the memory of getting pregnant at 24 with her then-boyfriend Mark Webber is fresh. The two were in Philadelphia shooting his directorial debut film, Explicit Ills, in which she had a…
Read moreIt happens some time in the third week of parenting a newborn child: the moment when you start to feel like you’re below deck on a quickly sinking ship. With a double-digit number of interrupted nights under your belt, but without a sense of routine, your grasp on time becomes tenuous. Minutes in the middle…
Read moreHello Emily! I’m a single mom and my daughter is 2 years old. I’ve told my friends that dating for me will be harder because I’m a mom, and my daughter is still very young. I’ve tried online dating apps, but the guys I’ve matched with fade off after a couple of days. What should…
Read moreAfter my mom was shot and killed at Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut, along with five other educators and 20 children, I was sure that Congress would act. They didn’t. And now 58 more people are dead following a mass shooting in Las Vegas—to say nothing of the more than 100,000 other Americans killed…
Read moreSince my baby was born a year and a half ago, my husband and I have watched the majority of our recent employers in the media industry either shut down, get sold, or drastically decrease their staff. We have switched back and forth to each others’ health insurance a few times, trying to maintain stability…
Read moreAn Instagram photo of a mom named Angela Burzo crying as she breastfeeds recently went viral. “It has been an emotional and painful struggle,” she wrote. Other moms applauded Burzo for reminding us it’s normal not to always love breastfeeding—or any aspect of motherhood, for that matter. But should moms really have to cry their…
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