Welcome to One Mom Magazine!
​      We created One Mom as a hub of information, inspiration, community and discounts for people who identify as single mothers. So much good can happen when we work together. 
     For starters, single moms can join our network and receive the the One Mom card (OMCard) to get discounts on all sorts of goods and services for themselves and their children. OMCard Business Partners understand that we single moms could use a boost and they offer us the same discounts they give to students, seniors, veterans, and teachers. 
      --Mindi Englart, Founder
ARTICLES
Who IS a "Single Mom?"
The term doesn't always capture the diversity of experience
By Christine Sullivan 
     I love the episode of “We Can Do Hard Things” where Martha Beck talks about tangible strategies to calm yourself down during challenging times:
How to Stop Worrying with Martha Beck
     Here’s a great interview of Jelly Roll by Willie Geist of MSNBC; the story is so inspiring that it made me fall in love with his music.
     And for the new Realist Book Club, we are reading The Courage To Be Disliked. Contact me to join! 
ARTICLES
The Importance of Fur Friends--"Fur-iends"
Pets are a driving force of comfort for our kids
ARTICLES
How to Go from Rescuing to Helping and Why It Matters 
Using self awareness to create boundaries
ARTICLES
Processing a Difficult Situation How to respond when life's curveballs hit
​ADVICE
Supporting Special Needs Kids It takes a village to raise children, especially those with special needs
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Laney's Introduction to Jessica's Gift: 
​Within the sometimes stressful world of single parenting, our children can provide surprising comfort, just by being themselves. As we watch them develop and grow, it fills us up in ways that nothing else can.

​JESSICA'S GIFT
By Laney Williams

like blossoms placed on my worried heart
the small hands comfort me                   
my spirits ease, how could they not?
her touch is feathery                                

those hands are strong for one so young  
firm yet still so small
and as she grows the hands grow skilled
from art and work and all

she gathers and she nurtures
learns much from nature’s ways
communes with crows and plants and soil
and sailing fills her days 

now that she’s grown my worries ease
such joy to see her bloom
and my dear daughter’s blossoms
still grant me their perfume
AFLOAT
A poem by Laney Williams, 2024
A Few of My Favorite Joyful Things to Start the New Year
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By Debbie Fay (Reprinted from 2024)
     As has become tradition, I offer you a few of my favorite things: stories, songs and other joyful stuff to begin the new year.
     First, from NPR's Story Corp, a story of a young man with a heart that's 'GINORMOUS' as Elf would say. Amazingly, many years ago one of my newsletter recipients wrote me to say that he knew this young hero, and the story surprised my reader not a all.
     Second, from NPR's "This I believe", a story of love that brings me great joy.
     Next, Leonard Cohen's HALLELUJAH, sung by 1,500 people in an abandoned generating station in Toronto. This performance is stunningly beautiful and reminds me of the power of human beings joined together in song.
     What the World Needs Now, sung by the Broadway community, moves me to tears every time. Despite the world's conflicts, LOVE MUST PREVAIL.
     A Million Dreams, sung by PINK and her daughter, Willow, is a glorious anthem. A million dreams is all it's gonna take.
     One more from "The Greatest Showman", here's From Now On sung by Welsh of the West End, a singing group who up to this point had only sung together on Zoom, performing in person for the first time on Britain's Got Talent. Their effect on the audience is heart-bursting.
     Finally, last year I found this fantastic cover of Everyday People. Everyone from Keb' Mo' to Yoyo Ma - and lots and lots of children - contributes to this rendition.
     Here's to a joy-filled 2025 for ALL of us everyday people.
ARTICLES
​Embracing the Chaos
​The secret to finding joy as a single mom
ARTICLES
​What Enabling Is How to stop supporting addiction & dysfunction
ARTICLES
Links to Inspire Check out these stories and songs that bring joy. 
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One Mom ​(formerly Single Mothers Discount Card) is a growing international network designed to support single mothers with news, community, and financial support in the form of a discount card. Members present the One Mom card (OMCard) to participating business who give them the same discounts they offer students, seniors, and veterans. 
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ARTS SECTION
​​Art by & for single moms
​& their loved ones
CYANOTYPES
By Kris Wetmore

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