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.
Today I am Superwoman. I’m feeling totally empowered, focused, and ready to take on the world. For some reason, I’ve been up since 5 a.m. (Hint: think 16 pounds of drool and happiness); and in those three hours my mind has somehow landed in a random groove of productivity. I think it’s that “in the […]
If my mom were alive, she’d be 62 today. Anyone who’s lost someone close to them knows that birthdays and holidays take on extra significance when you are missing someone important in your life. Days like this I often imagine what things might be like if she had lived…. and I always come to the […]
Yep, Just Like on ‘Sex in the City’ When I left Austin, I closed an important and treasured chapter of my life. My experiences there changed me forever; and frankly, I didn’t know what to expect on returning to Atlanta. As it turned out, a whole new era was about to begin. Looking back, I […]
Neither of us had so much as set foot in Austin before we pulled into town with a U-haul in mid-2000. We got a crappy apartment and I landed another temp job — this time in the resource development department at the Red Cross, where I was pretty much guaranteed to perform better than the […]
In the last couple of weeks I’ve been seeing and hearing lots of retrospectives highlighting the key moments of the past decade — from our fears about Y2K and September 11th, all the way to the economic collapse and 2008 election, and everything in between. It got me thinking about my own life over the […]
2010 is just one day away, and it’s time to take stock and resolve to make changes in our lives for the coming year. Even though we all know, deep down, that New Year’s Resolutions rarely work, somehow the blank slate of a whole new year is irresistible. It’s like a fresh, white canvas crying […]
Any of my female readers who are like me and, well… (ahem) generously endowed, already know that sports bras can be tricky business. I’ve always thought it was ironic that those of us who need support the most seem to be furthest from the minds and intentions of sports bra designers. First of all, it’s […]
Man, time flies…. My Little Monkey is now five months old, and all the books and websites tell me that his language development is at a critical point. So I’m supposed to be talking to him often, labeling things, and using lots of vocabulary words. As much as I love to talk, I have found […]
A few months ago, I signed on as a contract writer for one of those content-engine websites [the ones that hire freelancers to generate as much keyword-driven web content as possible, in hopes of driving traffic to Internet ads]. The contract requirements are pretty simple: just 10 short articles in three months; with pay based […]
Okay, so maybe not everything has a positive reframe…. As the title indicates, we had an invasion in our kitchen this weekend — ANTS. It was actually the third or fourth time we’ve had a major visit from the ants this season (rain and cold, I guess); but this was the first time the little […]
