Posts Categorized: Life’s a Butter Dream
Life’s a Butter Dream – Author M.J. Pullen blogs about body image, weight loss (and gain) (and loss again), fitness and struggling to stay healthy as a working mom. When my oldest son, Skywalker, was a toddler, he used to sing “Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily… life’s a butter dream.” And he’s right!
I’ll be very honest with you, blog reader friends. Just between us, negative reviews about a book you’ve written can suck. Even though every book gets them, even though you can always learn something from feedback, even though it’s part of what you signed up for when you decided to take the self-important step of […]
Did you ever have one of those weeks? I did. Week before last, actually. Some people would say, “when it rains it pours.” I would say, “it felt like our house was on a vortex of crap.” Those of you who have or have recently had preschool-aged children understand that once your kid goes to […]
This is a continuation from the previous blog entry about a week I couldn’t have made up if I’d tried. It will make more sense if you read that one first.Part Three: Situation Comedy After Tuesday’s crisis, you would think I’d had enough drama for a good long while. Apparently, there is never enough drama […]
Part One: Prayer I’ll be honest: prayer has never been a big thing for me. I spent most of my formative years as a staunch agnostic (yes, that probably is an oxymoron — decidedly undecided). For many more years I was a kind of spiritual wanderer, searching for a home. Now that I’m happily settled […]
Front Field For today’s blog, I’m including some pictures from our family farm in South Georgia. These were taken back in December 2008. I have always loved the farm, and always struggled with what it represents. The farm has been in our family since the late 1800’s. It’s part of who I am, and memories […]
This morning I stepped onto the Wii Fit for the first time in a while. I had to replace the batteries just to get it going after months collecting dust. If you have a Wii Fit, or have used one at someone’s house, you know that the little guy ‘talks’ to you when you weigh […]
Happy New Year, y’all! Hope everyone enjoyed their winter holidays. Here’s a picture of me doing who knows what on the beach last week: Seriously, what am I doing here? Embarrassing beach dancing aside, I do feel very refreshed after spending some quality time with my family doing absolutely nothing. When the holiday break started, […]
It seems writers are always talking about voice. Finding your voice, choosing a voice for a story… and even, on some occasions, hearing voices. (No one ever said we writers were the most mentally stable crowd.) On a personal note today, I’d like to join the rest of the University of Georgia’s Bulldog Nation in […]
Last night we took the boys Trick-or-Treating with some friends and had a great time. I didn’t know whether Monkey would be able to keep up with the four- to seven-year-old crowd on his little two-year-old pirate legs, but he was a champ. I don’t think he cares much about the candy yet — last […]
I’ve had language on the brain this week. First and rather unpleasantly, there is the language of the law. Despite a house-wide lack of sleep, the major disruption in our family right now relates to one poorly-written phrase in an outdated will of my father’s. It’s a long story I can’t tell in detail, but […]
