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When You Lived in My Belly comes out two weeks from today–August 6th! And I will be reading it at the Barnes & Noble in Bellingham, MA on August 10th (more information and…
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Happy Saturday! Stay cool by reading another review of When You Lived in My Belly. 😉 You can preorder on Barnes & Noble and Amazon! “I’ve started collecting books for new mommies and mommies-to be….
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Gotta love end of the elementary school year craft projects! It’s all fun and good until someone (me) has a momentary lapse of reason (of course me) and forgets that Gorilla glue doesn’t…
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Today is already shaping up to be this kind of day: Sunglasses for no reason except daylight (even sans sun) seems way too bright. Oh, and they work as a makeshift headband for…
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Soooo…let me tell you about my upcoming weekend. ✔️ My beautiful, brilliant bonus daughter is graduating from college tomorrow. When I met her, she still believed in Santa Claus, and I absolutely…
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Five years ago today, I lost the person I was closest to for the first 40 years of my life. My beloved mom died after a relentless fight with ovarian cancer–a cruel, horrific,…
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It was a battle of wits last night in my home. The Tooth Fairy versus an insatiably curious and inquisitive 8-year-old who doubts her very existence. My son has only lost four teeth….
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“Today is Valentine’s Day. We had a code red at school. I was locked in a room. I thought I was going to die.” Imagine your child writing those heartbreaking words in a…
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Bombogenesis. In all of my long suffering winters as a native Bostonian, I have never heard this term. Blizzard? Sure. Snowpocalypse? Yup. But bombogenesis? Yikes. Hearing the panic-stricken weather forecasters screech “bombogenesis” on…
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I picked my boys up after school yesterday and surprised them with a day at a farm I used to frequent as a kid. They climbed haystacks piled high for their enjoyment, and…
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It’s the first day of school for my kids! T minus five days until I am routinely stumped by second grade math homework. Fourth grade assistance might require a stunt double, industrial-sized margaritas,…
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My son was enjoying a rare pack of Starbursts before I dropped him off at his dad’s yesterday. The car ride was more on the silent side—peeling, chewing, and prioritizing colors demands focus!–but…
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When I wrote a blog post on HuffPost Divorce, “Top 10 Rules For Dating A Single or Divorced Mom,” I never expected to meet the love of my life. But that’s exactly what…
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