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Author M.J. Pullen blogs with humor about her life as a writer and working mom raising two padawans with her own personal Mr. Darcy.

Favorite Romantic Movies

posted on 05/30/2014

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I came across this great YouTube compilation of someone’s Top 50 romantic movies and thought it was good enough to share. Do you ever get the feeling from a list like this that you could absolutely be friends with the person who made it? Some of the highlights of this list for me are: Shakespeare […]

How Divergent Are You?

posted on 05/28/2014

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I’m making my way through my 2014 reading list, which I probably should update for you soon, and I’ve just started listening to the audiobook version of the YA dystopian mega-hit Divergent. (Yes, I’m waaaay behind the times, I know). For those who haven’t read it yet, Divergent is based on a future in which […]

Pre-K Graduation Day

posted on 05/22/2014

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Okay, I’m totally indulging in a little Mommy-gushing for this blog. I just refuse to believe that my little Skywalker (the new nickname I’m assigning him since the “Little Monkey” moniker I gave him early on in this blog now seems babyish and inappropriate) graduated from Pre-Kindergarten today. I remember kids ‘graduating’ from Pre-K in […]

My Weight Watchers App is Turning into a Jewish Mother

posted on 05/19/2014

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Okay, okay. I’ll admit it. I have been really struggling with the food thing lately. I haven’t been avoiding wheat and yeast entirely, and I haven’t been avoiding sugar much at all. When sugar calls, I answer the phone on the first ring, and I don’t even bother to pretend I was about to call […]

Happy Birthday Hubs!

posted on 05/16/2014

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Today the love of my life, while still younger than I am, is officially in the MIDDLE of his fourth decade on earth. This blog is going to be short and sweet because we have so much going on today (much of it not even related to his birthday, poor guy). But still, he should […]

Wardrobe! Cher, Cyndi and Workable Fashion

posted on 05/14/2014

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Much to the chagrin of my eldest child, Monday night I went with my mother-in-law, sister-in-law and another friend to see Cyndi Lauper and Cher at Phillips Arena. Amazing show. In my most basic moments of vanity and self-aggrandizing, this may be my Number One reason for wanting to be a famous novelist. Why? Because […]

Sugar Relapse and Getting Back on the Wagon

posted on 04/29/2014

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Well, here we go: I promised you I’d update you about the sugar detox journey. To be honest, I’m sort of hoping that if I write things out and post them publicly, it will help me re-center myself as well. The osteopath is going to drag it all out of me tomorrow anyway. [If you […]

Marrying My Friend & Peak Experiences

posted on 04/25/2014

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Last weekend, I got to add “marrying my best friend” to my life’s list of peak experiences. Okay, well, technically I married my best friend almost eight years ago. That was when I slipped something in Hubs’ drink and hauled him under the chuppah on a Labor Day weekend. (When he said “I do,” he […]

Conversations in the Minivan

posted on 04/24/2014

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A little conversation in the minivan (Vaneschwitz!) with my almost 5-year old on the drive to preschool this morning: Him: I have this button that gives me happy thoughts and this button that makes me go all crazy, and then a safety button that is only for emergencies. Which one should I press? Me: Umm… […]

Heavenly Day

posted on 04/23/2014

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I wrote this blog on a notepad at lunchtime, sitting outside a cafe in downtown Roswell, Georgia, and enjoying one of the many perks of my career as a high-priced prostitute fiction writer. Today is a day like Heaven, at least in metro Atlanta. It’s a sunny mid-70’s, and the greenish-yellow pollen that has coated […]