Why My Dog Is Cooler Than a Boyfriend

December 26, 2014

She lives to please me. All Lucy wants to do is make me happy. She seeks approval, listens to commands, and wags her tail in delight when I come through the door. She even brings me my freakin’ slippers.

She’s a dope cuddler. Yeah, it’s great to snuggle up with a guy, but my puppy is always there to snuggle and doesn’t want me to make her a…

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.