Tomorrow we begin our forty-day electricity fast. I feel like there were several things I meant to do and write and plan for before this started, but today was busy with family and barbecuing and recovering from the CBC and shrugging when my mom couldn’t stop remarking on how large my 28-week belly looks. I [...]
There are so many things I want to write about (Susan’s experience learning to read and tie her shoe left-handed, my gardening/composting misadventures, Sally’s complete apparent brainwashing into the public school system at the tender age of nine, my disinclination to have Spot’s speech assessed though maybe it should be, and a hundred other little [...]
Today I was offered share in a company while I worked the StartupPrincess swag table at the Seth Godin lunch for Haiti. (Think of that as background information, not name-dropping). A man approached me, saying he felt impressed to tell me about his great idea for a Twitter/Facebook-type networking site that would fill a niche [...]
There’s a “rest of the story” on Motherlode today, and the picture it paints, in the words of the father and wife involved in the “dirty little secret” post from earlier this week, is heartbreaking, and very sympathy-inducing. Basically, the father was served with papers a few months into his marriage, telling him he was [...]
See if you can spot all the problems in this pitch: Hello Mari, I wanted to tell you about a new month-long Bubbles and Bubbly Contest powered by Wisk High-Efficiency detergent, which your readers will surely enjoy. To enter to win, just answer a true or false question that tests your Bubble IQ and no [...]
(Pre.S. 1 There’s a Thanksgiving Point giveaway at the end, so skip to that if you get bored.) (Pre.S. 2 Mr. Bennet needs to come to terms with the fact that even celebrity mommy bloggers fart.) Yesterday I took Sally and Susan to a mommy-blogger PR tour at Thanksgiving Point, and the full disclosure is [...]
About a century ago (in mommy-years) I wrote my honors thesis at BYU on Emily Dickinson and how she was a Transcendental Trinitarian. (Oh, it was ground-breaking and all kinds of awesome). Seriously, her poems are terse epics, and it’s been speculated that perhaps she would’ve made a fantastic blogger, what with the letter-writing and [...]