Tell me if I’m wrong, but there aren’t too many single dads out there writing
blogs. C’mon guys, where are you? Speak up, please.
Trey Ellis, one of
my favorite single dad bloggers, kindly responded to my email in 2005, after I
wrote to him. I’d just read his brilliant Modern
Love column in the New York
Times — “Who’s
That Lady in the Bedroom, Daddy?“– and sent him an email…
Trey is raising his
kids on his own in NYC, and he was such a sweetheart to bring his kids to my
Barnes & Noble reading in Manhattan this year. You can count on Trey for keeping it
real.
Robert
Boyd is a freshly-divorced dad at the new site Divorce360
who writes about everything from surviving the holidays alone to “fun things not
involving squirrels.”
For a more nuts and bolts single dad blog, check out Jorge
Fitz-Gibbon, who writes a single parenting blog for his upstate New
York newspaper. You’ve got to admire Jorge
for his civil co-parenting relationship with this ex-wife, and his
blended family with his single mom girlfriend.
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As for the following single dads, I don’t know them personally, but found
them when I Googled “single dad” and “blog:”
Lee
Kelley wrote a blog for the New York Times, “Homefires,”
about being deployed in Iraq — and going through a divorce. His entries pull you
right in. For more up-to-date entries, check out his Word Smith at
War.
There’s Day in the
Life of a Single Father, who’s raising his sand-castle building son
in Virginia… and bringing his girlfriend into the mix. He describes his blog as
“Ramblings and Going Ons of a slightly insane single-parent and his sane
and patient son.”
Father Knows
Nothing says that he’s getting married again, as soon as his
divorce goes through, which makes a woman wonder why he wouldn’t wait just a bit
— for himself and his kids — before he dives into the next relationship.
Hey, if you know any single dads bloggin’ out there, send ‘em my
way! A girl can get lonely over here.
