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Momming Monday: Nuclear Mom

Mondays are my days where I usually blog about some aspect of parenting while working from home. Especially in a creative industry like writing, it can be incredibly hard to carve out respect for your work time, carve out worth [...]

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Momming Monday: OCCUPY! The Children

School is winding down for us and the countdown is in the single digits. Some people send their kids to camp, others have their kids in spring and fall sports. I figure if I’m going to have them home all [...]

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Momming Monday: It’s Not The Heat, It’s The Humanity

Monsoon season has come to lovely Ohio, and already the dehumidifiers are working overtime, and the pea-soup air is making my yearly declaration of “no A/C until after school ends” a failure seven days into May. But one thing the [...]

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Momming Monday: Scaredy Cat

Admit it. You’re scared. I’m scared. We’re scared. As parents, we double down on the fear factor perhaps more than people without kids. But the truth is, we live in a culture of fear. We’re bombed with it, 24/7. All [...]

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Momming Monday: Seventh Inning Stretch

They call it the “Seventh Inning Stretch” at baseball games because it’s literally a physical stretch you do in the middle of the seventh inning (one of the origin legends has it beginning right here in Cincinnati). You get up [...]

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Momming Monday: Authentic Living

What’s your truth?
Have you ever had that “set-adrift” or directionless feeling? Are you unenthusiastic about your work–whatever it may be–or feeling like the effort just ain’t worth it–no matter how much “effort” it really is? We all have ebbs and [...]

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Momming Monday: Springing Ahead

Yeah, today’s the Time Change. Just when you’ve gotten used to getting up when it’s finally beginning to lighten outside, you get knocked back to waking at Oh-Dark-Hundred. Seems like this whole “Spring Ahead” thing does nothing but put you [...]

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Momming Monday: Moving The Furniture

Even the perfect room layout gets stale after so many months. Since most of us don’t go running out to order whole new decorating schemes when our rooms start to look a little lived-in, the best alternative we have is [...]

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Momming Monday: Finding Your Feet

You can trot along feeling like you’ve settled into your pace, and you’ve got this “walking on two feet” thing down pat, and suddenly look down to find–or rather to NOT find–your feet. You don’t know where those suckers went, [...]

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Momming Mondays: De-Cluttered House, De-Cluttered Brain

Okay, it’s getting on to the end of January, here. Are you sick of winter yet? For my good friends on the underside of the world, you don’t need to come back and read this in 6 months–it works in [...]

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About the Author
I write stories about people who are a little left of center, finding their own way to Happily Ever After. My favorite hobbies are imagination-driven, and center around crafting or making things, whether it be sweaters, accessories, stories shared with good friends, or making my kids think.
My Books
“The Spelling Error”
Smashwords
Barnes and Noble
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“Forever Material”
Smashwords
Barnes and Noble
Amazon