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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.

Stranger than Fiction (Parts Three and Four)

posted on 03/26/2012

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 […]

SERIOUSLY Stranger Than Fiction (Parts One and Two)

posted on 03/23/2012

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 […]

Seeds

posted on 03/01/2012

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 […]

Mii and the Wii

posted on 01/10/2012

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 […]

2012: Ready, Set… Where Am I Again?

posted on 01/05/2012

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, […]

The Voice

posted on 11/22/2011

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 […]

Haunted

posted on 11/01/2011

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 […]

Words, Words, Words

posted on 10/28/2011

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 […]

I’m almost too embarrassed to tell you this

posted on 08/08/2011

Maybe it’s an occupational hazard (writer + counselor), but I often notice themes emerging in my life and work. Right now one of those themes, especially with my teen and adult female clients, is humiliating experiences. Most often things that might happen, and would be so devastating that the person would never recover. Falling down […]

More Discovery Channel at Home

posted on 06/30/2011

While we were having breakfast this morning, so was a little red fox in our backyard. And, yes, that IS a baby bunny he’s devouring. Fortunately this time, we did not hear any screaming. Kudos to hubby for cleaning up the mess…