I hate it when my kids leave me for their dad’s. I’m not saying I don’t want them to see their dad, but I hate it when they go. I hate the sudden stillness in the house, a stillness that will last five days until they return. When they go everything changes. When I’m on […]
Category: Mom World
A Contest for Writing Moms
One of my good friends, Christine Fugate, an independent filmmaker, writer and very busy mom is hosting the 2nd Annual Mothering Heights Mother’s Day Essay Contest which ties in to her blog, Mothering Heights. I have so many writer friends that visit my blog I promised Christine to help spread the word about her contest. […]
When You Know
When you know what matters. When you know what’s true. When you listen to that little voice inside yourself and the little voice is so damn tired of telling you its so damn tired… The books are all good. But this many? This much? For what? Yes, to pay the bills, and yes, because I […]
Talking Turkey
I’ve had a wonderful week in Hawaii. The book events went great–fueled in part by a big story on me in last Friday’s Honolulu Advertiser. My only blip was yesterday and considering yesterday was Thanksgiving it might be more than a blip. It might be a blop. The turkey tanked. It really did and even […]
Playing Games
The Alpha Mom copy edits are done. That was a big chore. I’d thought the manuscript was pretty clean, but as with Odd Mom Out, I somehow got some of the chronology wrong and then the copy editors got another part wrong and started making changes and by the time the marked up manuscript reached […]
Short & Promotional
I just wrapped up a radio interview and my media escort is arriving in ten minutes to take me around Seattle for stock signings (aren’t I a diva??) before dropping me back at the house to meet boys bus and then it’s a five thirty book club call in before I whip up dinner. That’s […]
Decathalon Mom
Trying to parent in and around the Odd Mom Out book tour has been interesting at best. I’ve spent a lot of the past month holding my breath and praying that we can just avoid disaster. I’ll settle for chaotic. Messy’s great. During the month of October I finally accepted that okay, average, passable, fine, […]
Uh, Hello God it’s Me
This is my first post from the road on the much anticipated ODD MOM OUT book tour and it’s an interesting book tour so far. The book part of the tour is going fine. My personal life is not so fine and Ken my poor media escort of the past 3 days has been subjected […]
O Mom
Those of you who read my blog know I write about being a mom, a lot, so when I was invited to join the blogging moms over at Working Mother.com I jumped at the chance. My new Working Mother blog is called O Mom, because let’s face it, that’s all my kids seems to say, […]
Reality, My Friend
My house is a mess. The laundry is piling up. I was at my computer until midnight working and back at my desk at 6:45 a.m. before waking boys up at 7. My oldest son was driven to school at 8, he in dark despair, me in chirpy uncertain pep-him-up mood even as I wonder […]
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