Posts By: MJ Pullen
M.J. Pullen is a distracted writer and the mom of two boys in Roswell, Georgia, where she is absolutely late for something important right now. Her books include quirky romantic comedies and playful women's fiction. She blogs erratically with writing advice, random observations, and reflections on raising very loud kids and dogs. Join her Distracted Readers newsletter list for updates, free content, giveaways and more.
Hope everyone had/is having a wonderful Easter, Passover, and beginning of spring. We’re on Day 7 of Passover at our house and I’m proud to say I’m still hanging with the dietary restrictions thus far. My track record during pregnancy is slightly blemished in this regard: when I was prego with Monkey I fell off […]
Until yesterday, I’d been away from the keyboard in almost every way for the last week. I barely managed to keep up with critical e-mails, much less to find time to blog or work on my novel. (Isn’t it funny that I feel like a pretentious ass saying ‘work on my novel,’ even though that’s […]
Alright, people. I realize the modern conveniences of cell phones, e-mail, Caller ID, Facebook, etc. have created some social and professional situations that aren’t covered by the traditional etiquette rules of Emily Post. Somehow I don’t think the ladies who long ago made maps of appropriate forks and wrote the governing regulations on thank-you notes […]
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. ~Thoreau Okay, sure. I’m on board. I found this quote while looking for some motivation since I have been feeling […]
I’ve been chastised by a few people lately for my sporadic, infrequent blog posts; and I have to say I’m flattered to know that at least two or three people miss me when I’m not around. So, thanks for that! Now, the reasons for the cyber-doldrums… First, as many of you have learned in the […]
Today was a fantastic day. If you live in or near Atlanta, you know that the weather was absolutely perfect today – sunny and low-60’s. And since Sunday is our family day (the only day neither of us works), we got to enjoy the wonderful weather together. First on our agenda, we went to a […]
I was driving somewhere with my family, I don’t remember where. We were near the intersection of Piedmont and Bells Ferry in Kennesaw. The blue lights in the mirror were a surprise; I checked my speed and verified that I was going 37 in a 35 zone. I wondered if I’d missed a school zone […]
The last couple of weeks around our house have been all about ears and noses. The problem with Monkey’s sleeping I wrote about a couple of weeks ago turned out to be not teething, but a double ear infection. It took me almost six days of his crazy behavior (plus a fever) to figure out […]
Originally this blog was going to be about how our little monkey didn’t sleep Friday night, and what fun it was trying stay awake and present Saturday morning when we had a crowd at our house for brunch. MLM is getting in a back molar, we think, and he was awake and crying from midnight […]
I’m back! A little bit rested and having spent some great time with friends and family. Plus a functional second bathroom, finally! So now I’m looking over my list of New Year’s Resolutions (mine are so fantastic, I reuse them year after year), trying to decide what to commit to for 2011… Lose weight? Eh, […]
