What I Learned From Hazel Soares (busy moms and dads, take a look)
Hi Everyone: As I was lamenting to myself about what I hadn’t gotten done today/this month/this year, I came across an article about a very special and inspirational woman, nintely-four-year-old Ms. Hazel Soares. She has just graduated with a degree in art history and her comments about her accomplishment taught me a great life lesson. [...]
A Mom Is Born: The Virtual Baby Shower Celebrating a Woman’s Journey into Motherhood
You are invited to a Virtual Baby Shower for Virgina Kerr, anchor on KMOV’s early news show, Awake! The parenting resource site MyMommyManual.com and television station site, KMOV are co-hosting A Mom Is Born: The Virtual Baby Shower Celebrating a Woman’s Journey into Motherhood. It is scheduled for Wednesday, August 25 from 11 a.m. to 1 [...]
What’s This Single Mom Up To?
Hi Everyone – I thought I would share a little update on goings on with my book, some of my posts at Working Mother Magazine, and what I’ve been doing on The Single Mothers Chronicles Facebook page….so first the book… I am so happy to say that there is a publisher interested in my book! [...]
Universal Truths About Divorce
Hi Everybody: I am so very honored today to be a guest blogger at my bloggy pal Mandy’s site Since My Divorce. My article, titled Universal Truths About Divorce, is featured there today – please check it out and let us know what you think! (FYI for all you single moms, single dads, and kidless divorced folks, [...]
A Great Way to Double Your Charity Dollars for Education (from Groupon and donorschoose.org)
Hi Everyone: The New York Times ran an article recently spotlighting a new partnership between online education charity DonorsChoose.org and Groupon, a nationwide daily deal site. The partnership offers Groupon’s first-ever charity deal, allowing subscribers to double their donation dollars for individual classroom project requests submitted by public school teachers. Please see link below: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/groupon-and-donorschoose-org-host-a-digital-pledge-drive/ [...]
Avoid Germs This Summer (Or Try To Anyway…)
Hi Everyone: Someone sent me these tips for having a healthy (germ free) summer (is that possible with kids?) What better way to kick off the holiday weekend than with a post about germs ? I knew you’d agree… Actually, they are good reminders…take a peek…they are written by Dr. Charles Gerba, a microbiologist at [...]
Moms Walkin’ the Talk
Hi everyone: I’m just taking a moment today to recognize and admire three single moms and one married mom. Each juggles her respective litter of kids, her job, her household, and each has made time to invest in her own growth through education. I am always impressed, energized, and motivated by stories about moms who [...]
She’s Strong, She’s a Puddle, She’s Inspirational…And She’s Human
Hi Everyone: Have you ever looked at a particular celebrity and wished you were like them? Yearned for their self-confidence, their style, their sure-fire ways to success? A friend of mine recently forwarded this article to me from Oprah.com – it’s an excerpt of Kathy Kinney’s book Queen of Your Own Life (Kinney played Mimi [...]
Top 10 Things Women Should Know About Fibroids
Hi Everyone, As a woman who has had fibroids in the past, I was so thankful to receive this informative and important article about Fibroids. Fibroid tumors are benign (non-cancerous) growths that appear on the muscular wall of the uterus. They range in size from microscopic to masses that fill the entire abdominal cavity, in [...]
The Reading is Fundamental Program needs your help!
Hi Everyone: I’m hoping you can take a minute to help out on an issue related to literacy, regardless of your political affiliation (or distance from politics altogether). The most recent version of President Obama’s budget eliminates $25 million funding for a program called Reading is Fundamental. This program provides free books and reading programs [...]
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