Thanks for visiting! If you’re new here, you may want to sign up for my RSS feed or automatic email updates - it’s free!Everyday you’re granted 24 hours of time with which to live. That’s actually a lot of time! But in your time-starved state, it rarely seems like enough. Instead, it feels like you’re [...]

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“To tell you the truth…” happens to be one of those nuances in people’s speech that drives me absolutely crazy. Of course, the implication is that everything that preceded that disclaimer, was false. But, yesterday I realized that even though I avoid saying, “To tell you the truth,” or its equally distasteful companion, “To be [...]

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Lately, my home feels like a battleground as my three children - 7, 5 and nearly 3 - engage in non-stop verbal, and sometimes physical, disputes over just about everything. Most of it is initiated by my clever little boy, who attempts to leverage his position in the family as “the baby” to his advantage. [...]

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With the girls back in school, it’s just me and ‘Lil Man until we figure out an alternative child care situation. His regular caregiver is out on medical leave longer than anticipated, so we can either wait (until November) or find someone new. At this moment, it feels better to just keep him home with [...]

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When I first graduated from college with my shiny BA English, I decided to bypass my default career decision to become an high school English teacher for a glitzy job as a technical trainer for a software company in San Diego. (If you’re wondering how I qualified - the short-story is I’m a bit of [...]

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We believe that Integrated Mothers are connected mothers…and not just for business or career reasons, but because we know that at the end of the day we find our peace, fulfillment and balance through quality relationships. To support you in developing a network, we’ve created a group on the professional social networking platform, LinkedIn.
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