Hello friends in the blogosphere!
As many of you know, I entered my novel, Women Like Us, in the 2014 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest. So far, it’s been a hair-pulling, nerve-wracking ride as I obsess over anticipate the next contest announcement. If you’re not familiar with ABNA, it works like this: Continue reading
Hello my beautiful blogging buddies! (How’s that for alliteration?) I need your help. In honor of my new bluetooth headphones that my wonderful husband and children gave me for Mother’s Day, I am on a mission to construct my perfect workout playlist. It only includes a few songs so far, and that will only get me so far. You can’t burn enough calories for Friday pizza night on a twenty minute workout. Continue reading
If you’re anything like me, when your kids were little, you pored over all those child development books searching for signs that your baby was “advanced.”
“Did you hear that? She just said, ‘Ba ba ba!’ That’s a consonant sound! She’s making consonant sounds at five months and eighteen days and she’s not supposed to do that until she’s six months! She’s going to be President!” Continue reading
Read and review my ABNA entry! <<<——-This is the link!
Hello friends! I’m so excited that my novel, Women Like Us, has made it to the quarterfinals of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award (ABNA)! Continue reading
I think we can all agree, motherhood brings with it some enormous changes. We’re learning to care for a tiny, helpless human being. We’re using our breasts to feed a person. We’re looking for nuance and hidden meaning in yawns and cries. And our once-flat stomachs have become bloated piles of wrinkly mush. (Ha ha! Who are we kidding? Our stomachs were never flat. At least not mine. Yours looks stupendous.) Continue reading
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Let’s face it, Winter. We’ve never had what you might call a “healthy” relationship. Yes, I know, when you first showed up outside my window, I sat, chin resting on my hand, and stared lovingly at your gentle beauty. I made us cocoa and built us a fire. I even introduced you to my kids. Continue reading
Emma and Sophia reading
This really just happened.
Emma and Sophia were playing in the basement when the swell of some sort of roar-scream hybrid came rushing up the stairs. Surely, someone had lost a toe or discovered a dead body in the bathroom. I went running to rescue my babies. No one had lost a toe. It was worse. Way worse. Continue reading
This is the time for making resolutions, and so many of us resolve to eat better, get more exercise, and lose weight at the beginning of the year. I think a lot of moms (including me!) worry about how our dieting and exercising behavior might affect our daughters. Continue reading
I’ve actually never written New Year’s Resolutions before, but I do like setting concrete goals, so I thought I’d give it a try this year. Here are a few things I hope to accomplish this year with my writing: Continue reading
Just wanted to share with you all what my wonderful husband gave me for Christmas this year. He actually gave it to me weeks ago figuring (correctly) that I’d probably buy it for myself immediately after its release. Continue reading
