5 Spring Date Ideas to Celebrate the New Season

April 11, 2014

There was not one piece of me that wanted to put on skinny jeans or a freakin’ dress and go on a first date. It seemed like such a chore. Like, uh, I have to put on fitted clothes and makeup and drink a brrrrrr, freezing cocktail on the rocks? No way! My cozy condo with heat and popcorn and the pizza guy on speed dial…

Single mom Christine Coppa is the author of the Target Breakout Book, Rattled! (Broadway Books, 2009) and the founding blogger of glamour.com's acclaimed Storked! blog where she spilled it about navigating an unplanned pregnancy and single motherhood minus her son's father. You can also find her witty (and often controversial blogs) on parenting.com, babble.com and Nickmom.com A professional writer/editor, she's contributed to Glamour, Marie Claire (Australia), First for Women, In Touch, Parenting, Baby Talk, and Parents among other publications and notable websites. Her work has been buzzed about in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and on ABC's 20/20. Coppa and her son represented the Yoplait Kids brand in 2011. The Sunday London Times called her a writer "at the forefront of a wave of modern moms who are reinventing the parental publishing genre." Coppa lives in North Jersey with her son Jack Domenic, 6 who is currently campaigning for a Golden Retriever puppy.