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.
I felt I needed to clarify the title, to keep people from getting all excited that MLM might be walking and read on, hoping for adorable “Bambi-on-the-ice”-type video ending with my son falling on his adorable little baby butt. Well, sorry. Not yet, anyway. Now that you’ve presumably recovered from the disappointment that this is […]
You know you want to. You do. You’re going to do it. You’re going to click this link and make a donation to the Avon Foundation for Breast Cancer in support of my 39.3-mile walk in Chicago this summer. The fact that you’re going to give isn’t in dispute. What might be up for discussion […]
Boobies. Ta-tas. The Girls. Cleveland. The Good China…. Our affectionate nicknames for them are endless and often hilarious. And our breasts serve many purposes in our lives: from that awkward moment when they signal the onset of puberty and we try on our first training bra, to trying desperately to direct the attention of men […]
Some bonus, baby-free downtime came my way today, so I indulged in a little “directed surfing” (which I guess is my way of rationalizing that avoiding work by reading blogs is okay as long as they are about writing, as opposed to celebrity gossip). While wasting time, I read some really great tips about writing […]
Here is the “To Do” list I made for myself for today: – check office vm (every 2 hrs)– reflection journal for class– bank– lunch w/ —-– finish marketing flier & e-mail to group for approval– make baby food?– f/u w/ potential client But here’s my “hidden agenda,” the one that isn’t written on my […]
I don’t know about you guys, but it’s a month-plus in, and I am sick of 2010 already. It’s been a wild six weeks for our family: the hacker fiasco, a busted water heater, craziness at work (for both of us — and I’m not referring to my clients!), a death in the family, resuming […]
When it comes to my night last night, the title pretty much says it all. Our little monkey has been more or less sleeping through the night for the last six to seven weeks (so my brain is JUUUUST starting to recover from chronic sleep deprivation — apologies for stupid things I’ve said during that […]
The dust has all but settled after this past week’s Adventures in Hacking. The only remaining fallout has been that Facebook disabled my account on Tuesday and has yet to reinstate it. On the one hand, I’m sort of annoyed about this, because I followed the recommended steps and sent an e-mail right after the […]
Now that I’ve recovered from some of the panic from earlier today, I thought I’d try to distill down as much as I know about what happened to my account(s) so that anyone reading this can be on the lookout for similar problems in their own e-mail accounts. This was NOT, as I originally thought, […]
Well, I guess the Universe noticed my hubris in my last blog entry this morning and decided to take me down a notch… Right after I posted, someone hacked into my gmail, yahoo and facebook accounts. Someone claiming to me and claiming to be stuck in London needing money just spammed my entire address book […]
