What's your word for 2010?
Every year, I choose a single word for the upcoming year for my resolution, instead of a list of to-do items. This seems to work a lot better than a bunch of “demands,” because that’s what most New Year’s resolutions eventually feel like!
You can read more about previous words here….
My word for 2009 was “success” [...]
Top 10 Reasons for a Mother/Stepmother Relationship Revolution
(Angelina Eberly* / photo by Alan P. Van Dyke)
1. While our overall divorce rate has dropped down to 49%, a staggering 75% of remarriages involving children end in divorce.
2. Moms and stepmoms are desperate to escape the feeling that a perfect stranger is constantly trying to undermine them. Who IS this person, really? Do you [...]
What's your one word for the new year?
For the past two years, instead of making a bunch of New Year's resolutions that stress me out and make me feel guilty, I've simply picked one, single word as my focus for the new year. Previously, I've used "support" and this past year, it was "ease." I can happily say I found surprising sources [...]
Read more »The new contract is here! The new contract is here!
(with apologies to Steve Martin)
It was so cool to get our new book contract by FedEx yesterday as my daughter Maddie (13) and I were heading to the library. She opened the box from the back seat and I smiled as she read the cover letter from the editor out loud. Then, she perused the [...]
Read more »Steeping, Fishing, Trimming or, Three Writing Tips
Today’s post is going to
be sort of a cheat, because I’ll be writing about something that’s easy to ponder:
writing. Every once and while when I sit
down to compose a post, I wonder how I could possibly find one more single helpful/interesting/provocative thing to say about
stepmom/ex-wife relationships. (Hopefully,
you’re not wondering the exact, same thing.) Usually, I [...]
Changes for the new year….
I’ve navigated this blog to typepad, in the hopes of creating a much better site. Sleeker. More organized. Rich and fruity and full of helpful, useful goodness.
Sounds a lot like qualities we long for as a new year begins, in the dead of winter. We dream of crisper, more efficient lives, increased health, less [...]
Are we getting air?
Like an idling hydrofoil, this blog has been stalled out for a bit…. Two things were simultaneously going on (only two? why not seven? twelve? okay, so there were more than two).
One, we were on a lovely rollercoaster ride with a publisher who was potentially interested in publishing our book! I had a short consultation [...]
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