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.
You know, I almost didn’t want to do a blog this week, partly because – as always seems the case when I sit down to write – I worry that I have nothing whatsoever to say. The more positive reason, however, is that last week’s entry elicited so many fabulous responses from everyone. I didn’t […]
Welcome to the inaugural presentation of the Plastic Scissor Awards: an occasional (sporadic) tribute to those who fly in the face of convention, reason, and general good sense in order to follow their passions. To those who insist on learning every lesson the hard way, who shamelessly come back for more after getting their hearts […]
I guess all that writing about almond lattes yesterday got to me – I was running an early errand this morning and decided to stop in for one. That’s when I found out Starbucks no longer has almond flavoring! First they’re closing 600 stores and now this??? What is the world coming to?? [By the […]
“If you’re going to _____, you might as well ______.” There are many ways to finish that simple verbal formula. For example, “If you’re going to shoot yourself out of a cannon to impress your friends on YouTube, you might as well buy a good life insurance policy.” Or, “If you’re going down with the […]
Don’t worry, this blog is not about to become another myspace page, where I just cut and paste things that I find amusing. It’s not the point of this, despite the fact that most of ‘youtube’ is WAY more interesting than I am. That said, I found this on my friend Cindy’s blog and I […]
Maybe it’s the hot weather or caffeine or something. I’m not usually one who has vivid dreams, especially involving cohesive plots, specific people or recognizable places. But I’ve been having some crazy ones lately. Like the one a few weeks ago where I helped a friend decorate her new house with the monsters and fixtures […]
I went to dinner with some friends last night, and a friend of mine – who is in Atlanta for the weekend from out of town – made me feel very special when he explained that he reads this blog regularly as one way of keeping in touch with me from afar. Awww…. how sweet. […]
Like most people, I’ve had money on the brain lately. Recession, gas prices, economic stimulus, housing market, job market… if I weren’t already meticulously evaluating my financial situation on my own (including, as the last blog indicates, calculating what I pay for the square footage in my storage unit), then the news outlets would still […]
So one of our tasks for the upcoming holiday weekend is that MDH and I are planning to clean out some stuff we’ve had in storage since early in the year. We boxed up some clutter while our condo was on the market, and now it needs to come home so that we can save […]
… And we’re back. The blog has been on a hiatus for a month or so, partly because of my graduation and all the festivities surrounding it, and then because we took a trip to Ireland for nine days. It was my first time crossing the Atlantic since I backpacked through Europe 10 years ago […]
