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.
Nothing deep to report today, just relaxing at the end of a lovely fall day. The weather was perfect today, and we drove to North Georgia to see the beautiful leaves and take MLM to a pumpkin patch. A stop at Greenwood’s in Roswell for some home-cooking out on the porch, and a nap on […]
You wouldn’t believe how uncomfortable it makes people. Especially skinny people. We’ll be together in some social situation, talking about whatever (often it’s food or dieting or fitness), and I will make a reference to myself as a fat girl. I often do this in an outrageously self-applauding way. For example when someone compliments me […]
It starts out with me thinking that my scale is broken. So, I look up the company that makes it and call customer service [because everyone knows that’s my favorite pastime]. CSR: “Thank you for calling Pleasantly Plump Weight Indicator Technologies, How may I help you?” ME: There’s something wrong with my scale.CSR: Could you […]
Earlier tonight, I had a nice opportunity to catch up with a colleague I don’t see outside of meetings very often. You know, it’s odd, private practice therapy can be a bit of an isolating profession — one that attracts people who are generally very sociable. I got into this business because I enjoy being […]
Don’t use the TV as a babysitter. This is one of those rules I always hear thrown around about parenthood. Actually, come to think of it, I hear it less often as a rule and more often as a derisive example of bad parenting that people desperately want to avoid. It’s usually something like, “I […]
I know everyone is super-busy, but please take a moment out of your day to vote for this very important project. Yes, you do have to register with the Pepsi people, but then you can vote for up to 10 different projects each day (and I’d love it if you’d vote for this project more […]
First, I have had the heebie-jeebies all day [that’s right, I said heebie-jeebies] after a trip to our basement laundry area this morning. I have noticed in the last few days that the cobwebs have gathered amazingly fast on our new washing machine and hot water heater, both of which were installed within the last […]
Isn’t this just the coolest thing? Right now I’m enjoying MLM’s morning nap and watching the trapped Chilean miners being rescued one by one. You would think that by the twelfth miner, some of the novelty and emotion of seeing this process would have worn off, but it hasn’t. It’s totally amazing to see someone […]
Today I got to do something I haven’t done in about seven years: I took a brand new set of hedge clippers and started the long process of trying to reclaim our overgrown jungle of a yard. Our new house has a pretty extensively landscaped yard in front and back. It was definitely one of […]
It’s time for another installment in the Stages of Weight Loss… When we last left our heroine, it was the WAY FUN stage of being totally balanced and really psyched about moving in the right direction. Well, I hope you enjoyed that feeling of momentum. Because now we’re going nowhere fast. This is a particularly […]
