This book of poetry, essays and antecdotes offers a peek at the life of a single parent to die hard romantic. The pages are filled with true life conversations between mother and child, to the everyday life and fear of being woman. Short stories and poems accentuate the true stories with a beautiful silk of imaginative delight. Table of Contents: 1. Empty (poem to prose) 2. Scenes from Alternative Parenting #1 3. Abbreviated Conversations 4. Elope 5. Scenes from Alternative Parenting #2 6. Dusk (poem to prose) 7. Things That Happen 8. Scenes from Alternative Parenting #3 9. Kiss Count 10. Un-kept 11. Dysfunctional Fam 12. Bullet Points: Self Defense 13. Scenes from Alternative Parenting #4