Welcome to my Mid-Blog Crisis
My blog will be a year old in March. The thing about having a blog is that you always feel like you owe someone an explanation when you haven’t been writing. Which is strange…because in all likelihood,...
View ArticleOne Year of Adventures in Parenting
I completely missed the one year anniversary of when I launched Adventures in Parenting. While some bloggers throw giant week-long anniversary celebrations, with incredible reader giveaways and Twitter...
View ArticleIntroducing Corporate Buzzwords for Professional Parents
After careers in television news, health care marketing, and now IT marketing, I have noticed that with every new job I have to learn a new vocabulary. In broadcasting, we had our “TV speak” that few...
View ArticleTen Ways I Am Living My MoMent
You haven’t seen much from this mommy blogger lately. Since there are only about 5 million other mommy bloggers on the planet, and that number continues to grow exponentially each day, I’m sure that...
View ArticleFeeling God’s Presence: Mercy after Miscarriage
I don’t know why I feel compelled to share this story right now, but I do…so I hope you’ll read it. The circumstances still make me shake my head in wonder. At 25 years old, I felt like I had my life...
View ArticleIs There Ever a Perfect Time for Another Baby?
I’m starting to feel them again. Little twinges of baby cravings. For the longest time, you could have held a delicious-smelling newborn right under my nose and I would have felt nothing – other than...
View ArticleThe Night I Held My FIRST BOOK
I have been writing “books” since I was four years old. I still have a copy of my first manuscript. Honestly and truly, writing picture books for children is the only thing I have ever said I wanted to...
View ArticleMid-SCBWI Conference Identity Crisis (and Mommy Guilt)
I’m sitting in a hotel room in Springfield, Massachusetts after my second day at the New England Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Conference. And I’m trying desperately not...
View ArticleA Radio Tour and a Brand New Signature
It has been even busier than usual in the life of this working mom the past few weeks. As most of you know, my first children’s book, “All About Poop,” was released by Pinwheel Books on September 1. So...
View ArticleWorking Mom Confession: The Moments I Almost Missed
For the last few weeks I have been feeling…overwhelmed. Stressed. Drowning in a strong current of to-dos that keeps pulling me further and further out to sea. I don’t even know what it’s like to go...
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