I’m in my 10th day as a single parent — as my wife is still out of the country. I have changed. I have become Brooke Shields.

In the new NBC TV show Lipstick Jungle she plays a character you’ve seen a million times: high-powered female executive overwhelmed and flustered as she tries to balance business and children. At the end of every day the end is the same. Business deals aren’t quite consummated or, if they are, it’s by luck. Children are in bed (though probably text messaging under the covers to their boy and/or girlfriends), but at least nobody got killed or arrested. And her heels are killing her.

That, after 10 full days of parenting a teen boy and teen girl (the older one is away at school) by myself, that Brooke Shields character, is me.

My wife will be home soon. That’s a good thing — because these heels are killing me.

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