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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.

Lesson #12: Dare to Dream….

posted on 04/24/2008

…but don’t forget to set the alarm. Okay, it’s a little trite. I’ll admit it. You read, “Dare to Dream,” in the title, and immediately you get some psuedo-inspiring, extra-annoying WhitneyBetteMariah song creeping into your awareness, complete with violins and some vague, drippy chorus. You see the poster image of the hang-glider or the astronaut […]

Love, Life & Loss

posted on 04/22/2008

It would be impossible to write genuinely this week without first mentioning Sean. So I won’t even try. Sean Costello, a close family friend of ours and an unparalleled blues guitarist, died suddenly last week, to the dismay of all of us who knew him, and many who did not. This amazing young man, who […]

Lesson #28: Listen to your body, even when your body is an irrational idiot.

posted on 04/15/2008

For some unknown reason, my internal clock decided to go off this morning before 4:30 a.m. This seems to happen to me more and more these days — of course, never on those days when I need to be up early for something. It’s always on a day like today when I’ll be working until […]

Under the Pollen, You Look Familiar

posted on 04/08/2008

Spring is here and, in my hometown of Atlanta, love is — quite literally — in the air. The trees and shrubs are doing their best to reproduce despite the recent drought; and as a result the entire metro area is covered in a soft, yellow-green carpet of pollen — so thick and pervasive it’s […]

Wallowing in Imperfect

posted on 04/04/2008

So, for today’s entry, I decided to operationalize the suggestions I made in yesterday’s blog about perfectionism… Meaning, what good is it to talk about having the courage to be imperfect but not say how? So here are 10 ways to fully enjoy being an imperfect human being: Next time you are going to a […]

Becoming Perfectly Flawed

posted on 04/03/2008

Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. ~Carl Schurz Anything worth doing is worth doing well. I don’t know who said this originally, but […]