The Eyelids 1st Annual International Flash Fiction Collection is now available through Amazon. Check out my 2nd place submission "Dream a Little Dream," and others in this great collection.  Click on the cover to connect to the Amazon Page:

Like so many other parents with children attending public school, sometimes the best I can do is pretend everything is okay, see if you can relate: 

http://www.bluntmoms.com/pretending-we-are-okay/

Here's another guest post on BluntMOms on the difficulty of negotiating our ideas of beauty and what we want to teach our daughters about there own self worth:

http://www.bluntmoms.com/the-unibrow-situation/

My very first guest post on the always entertaining mom blog BLUNTmoms about the very important need to be left very much alone sometimes: 

http://www.bluntmoms.com/i-miss-you-too-and-other-lies/

Write, write, write, submit, submit, submit. I've been polishing up and submitting many short stories lately as well as some blog post submissions to the snarky yet supportive mommy blogs that I appreciate the most. I am loving my new writing space so generously gifted...