My husband is black, I'm white, our kids are biracial. Before they were born, I used wonder what they would look like and whether anyone would recognize me as their mama. I once had a dream that my son was born looking like Gabe Kaplan (of Welcome Back, Kotter) complete with the mustache: my baby [...]
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Top 5 Porn Searches That (Mistakenly) Lead to My Blog — and Why That’s a Good Thing
This is part of the ProBlogger Group Writing Project. The theme is "Top 5." 1. Sex AddictionI won't keep you in suspense: the number one reason people find me while searching for porn is because I blog about sex addiction in my marriage. Of course, the people who are searching for porn using the term [...]
Not in a "Blue State" Anymore
Six years ago, shortly before the 2000 presidential election, Mark and I went to visit his father somewhere in the mysterious region south of the Mason-Dixon. I was not looking forward to the trip: I'm an anxious traveler at best, yet here I was, hugely pregnant, boarding a plane to visit someone who routinely made [...]
Never Tell Me the Odds
Where Mark and I stand, statistically speaking: The divorce rate in the U.S. is around 50%. The National Autism Association estimates that the divorce rate for parents of a child with autism is close to 80%. Given that sex addiction is still so cloaked in shame and secrecy, no one knows what the divorce statistics [...]
Race
My husband is black; I'm white. He has this dark, rich, chocolaty skin; I'm a creamy vanilla. Our kids are this beautiful mix. If you ask them what color they are, they will say, "golden," and it's true in every way. Mark and I met in college. Before that, I lived in all-white suburban neighborhoods [...]
