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Meet a Families.com Blogger – Kori Rodley Irons!

Today I am joined by one of our most prolific bloggers here on Families.com, Kori Rodley Irons. Kori, thanks for visiting with me today. How long have you blogged for Families.com? Since December of 2006, 1 year and 3 months, I suppose. What topics do you blog about? Parenting, Single Parenting and Home Business. What is your favorite thing about blogging for Families.com? I enjoy the discussions and comments, and the fact that we touch on so many different subjects and interests here. What do you like to do when you’re not blogging? I work a lot! When I am … Continue reading →

Dating a Single Parent? Flexibility and Ability to Roll with Things a Must

Many of us didn’t start out as the most flexible people on earth—I know that by nature, I tend to like a fair amount of order and structure in my world. I have had to learn as a parent how to be true to those character traits, while being completely flexible and able to roll with the unexpected and the unplanned things that go down in a typical family. So, it might seem unreasonable to expect that those people we date, if they do not already have children, to be flexible and open to the unplanned and unexpected, but even … Continue reading →

What Does Spelling Have to Do with Dating?

My daughter says I am a language snob and I have to get over myself. This is one of my hang-ups when I am trying to do the instant messaging with my daughters—I just cannot get on board with all the abbreviations and acronyms and all that modern written lingo. I expect full sentences and capitalization otherwise I am just working too hard to figure out what is being said. My daughter is of the theory that this is really holding me back in my hipness. Not to mention, I am finding with the whole online and internet social networking, … Continue reading →

Online Romance Scams

This afternoon Wayne surprised me and came home from work early. Thank goodness I had just woken up from my nap. He’d tease me mercilessly if he found me conked out on the couch. (He thinks that’s what I do all day as it is, which I do sometimes, but not always. But he’d never believe me if he actually caught me in the act.) At any rate, he’d had CPE (Continuing Professional Education) training for half the day. Instead of going in to the office for only a few hours, he opted to skip the drive and come home … Continue reading →

Celebrity News Week in Review for October 2, 2006

The celebrity news you may have missed! 10. George Michael Found Asleep In His Car…Again George Michael insists he does not have a drug problem, but he was found asleep in his car and police charged with possession of marijuana for the second time this year. How can one of the 80s best songwriters be so dumb? 9. Did She or Didn’t She? First we heard that Madonna had adopted a boy from Malawi, but now she is denying it. So did she adopt or was she just there building an orphanage as her publicist reported? 8. Tori’s Pregnant It … Continue reading →