Salon.com > Laurie Bain Wilson http://www.salon.com Thu, 23 May 2013 01:58:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 My single mom screw-up http://www.salon.com/2012/08/29/my_single_mom_screw_up/ http://www.salon.com/2012/08/29/my_single_mom_screw_up/#comments Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12994804 I didn’t mean to put the tampons into my 7-year-old son’s backpack. And I didn’t mean to put his Fruit Roll-Up and Juicy Juice into mine. But the switcheroo happened, on yet another crazed morning as I tried to hustle out the door to make the 7:40 train to New York City and drop Alex off at early bird summer camp. And while it was a very small thing, it had big implications for me.

Of course every parent has days when things don’t go as planned. But it seemed like my days were adding up. Alex’s dad and I divorced when he was 2 months old, and I’d been a single parent ever since, but I was now working a demanding job and commuting three hours every day (when the planets aligned), and these curious happenstances were turning our lives into a reality show – one that felt in danger of being canceled. I couldn't help wondering: Did we need to move? Did I need to change jobs?

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