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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.

The Wearing of the Pink – Breast Cancer Walk Recap

posted on 06/09/2010

Whew! It’s been almost two days since I finished one of the more major challenges of my life, and I’m finally finding time to sit down and write about my Very Pink Weekend. For anyone who happens not to know, I participated in the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer this weekend in Chicago. The total […]

Blisters and the Battle Within

posted on 04/21/2010

I’m nearly halfway through my training now, completing a 12-mile endurance walk this past Sunday. I’m learning a lot about myself through this process, including what my body is capable of enduring and how surprisingly quickly I can bounce back from what feels like overwhelming tiredness or soreness. I have noticed that during each week’s […]

Grateful Woman Walking

posted on 03/25/2010

I’m in my second week of training for the walk (and I promise that not every blog for the next 10 weeks will be about this). It’s going pretty well, though I am realizing how much I’d been neglecting my exercise routine lately. Walking five days a week and cross-training on the other two is […]

First Steps (Mine, Not the Baby’s)

posted on 03/16/2010

I felt I needed to clarify the title, to keep people from getting all excited that MLM might be walking and read on, hoping for adorable “Bambi-on-the-ice”-type video ending with my son falling on his adorable little baby butt. Well, sorry. Not yet, anyway. Now that you’ve presumably recovered from the disappointment that this is […]

The Breast Blog of the Year – Part Two

posted on 03/04/2010

You know you want to. You do. You’re going to do it. You’re going to click this link and make a donation to the Avon Foundation for Breast Cancer in support of my 39.3-mile walk in Chicago this summer. The fact that you’re going to give isn’t in dispute. What might be up for discussion […]

The Breast Blog of the Year – Part One

posted on 03/04/2010

Boobies. Ta-tas. The Girls. Cleveland. The Good China…. Our affectionate nicknames for them are endless and often hilarious. And our breasts serve many purposes in our lives: from that awkward moment when they signal the onset of puberty and we try on our first training bra, to trying desperately to direct the attention of men […]

To Do Today…

posted on 02/18/2010

Here is the “To Do” list I made for myself for today: – check office vm (every 2 hrs)– reflection journal for class– bank– lunch w/ —-– finish marketing flier & e-mail to group for approval– make baby food?– f/u w/ potential client But here’s my “hidden agenda,” the one that isn’t written on my […]

Sometimes it takes a crying baby to tell you about the leaky water heater

posted on 02/03/2010

When it comes to my night last night, the title pretty much says it all. Our little monkey has been more or less sleeping through the night for the last six to seven weeks (so my brain is JUUUUST starting to recover from chronic sleep deprivation — apologies for stupid things I’ve said during that […]

More Specifics on the Hacking Thing

posted on 01/19/2010

Now that I’ve recovered from some of the panic from earlier today, I thought I’d try to distill down as much as I know about what happened to my account(s) so that anyone reading this can be on the lookout for similar problems in their own e-mail accounts. This was NOT, as I originally thought, […]