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It's obvious that Jennifer Mattern is a professional writer, even if you don't click over to read her about page. In this post she writes about her very recent divorce with all the mixed emotions of it showing through her words: "There is a divorce epidemic, I am now convinced. It is spreading like wildfire, like the plague. This morning, I bring coffee and donuts and children to his place. The four of us eat breakfast at his counter. When the girls run off to play, D and I talk about this epidemic, about all the couples we know who are splitting. We speak in hushed, amazed tones, although we too have been claimed by this plague."