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Stupid Girls

December 5, 2011
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    A couple of nights ago, I had a conversation with my 7 year old daughter. Now, it’s not like the conversation is the thing to remark on. We talk all the time. Most of the time,...

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YASaves? Yeah, It Really Does

June 5, 2011
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Yesterday, the Twitterverse blew up with the hashtag #YASaves started by Maureen Johnson in protest to the Wall Street Journal Article entitled Darkness Too Visible by Meghan Cox Gurdon. I won’t recap the entire article...

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Why I Don’t Outsource…Much

May 21, 2011
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I changed my website today. Again. For those of you who’ve been following my adventures in publishing, the army and everything, you’ve seen multiple iterations of the blog format and theme. Information has gone from everything...

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I Don’t Believe in Censorship But…

May 20, 2011
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I’m not a fan of censorship. I believe it should be up to the people to decide what to read and what not to read, not left to corporations to filter to the people....

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The Talk

April 15, 2011
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The Talk

So yesterday I ran into one of the parents of girls who attend daycare with my daughters. She told me that her daughter was groped by one of the little boys. Now before you’re thinking I’m over reacting,...

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Mom Saves the Book

April 5, 2011
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I think I get a cool mom prize today. Not for building my kids a swing set or actually making them homemade cookies. No, today I saved a book. Today started like any other day. I...

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Front Leaning Rest Position, Move!

March 27, 2011
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So my kids have listening issues. Kind of like the vikings from How to Train Your Dragon on with less self sufficiency. My own yelling at them in return for this misbehavior has created, yeah,...

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The Swingset from Hell…But Fun

February 26, 2011
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Okay so the next time I raise my hand and say, I think I’ll build my kids a swingset, someone slap me. Everything hurts. When I say everything, I mean from the top of my...

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Transitions

August 4, 2010
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I’ve been trying to get the words right to describe my first conference but it seems like nothing has stopped long enough for me to actually get them down. My agent wants another synopsis for a second book. I...

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Stop and Smell The…

July 19, 2010
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I’m willing to be you thought it would be roses. You’re wrong. I’m not much of a flower person. I tend to kill all things green so the most you’ll see anything growing in my house...

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