Archive for the 'Yalies' Category
Friday, October 14th, 2011
Things are hectic around these parts. Between family, writing and teaching gigs, and micro-blogging on Twitter (from my personal account and for CoParenting101), I don’t post here very much. But when I do, I try to share some good news and thoughts about my journey. So I was especially appreciative when Cynthia who blogs at [...]
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Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
From Publisher’s Lunch Deesha Philyaw and Michael Thomas’s CO-PARENTING 101: Advice from a Formerly Married Couple on Parenting Across Two Households, the first book co-authored by a divorced couple for whom co-parenting is central to their daily lives, providing expert advice, practical tips, and tried-and-true tactics developed from real life co-parenting experiences, to Melissa Kirk at New [...]
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
So…El Ex and I received an offer on our co-parenting book!!!!!! Bonus: I was in the car with TechBooHusband on a rare mid-week stay in Maryland when I got the news. So thrilled to be able to share such an important moment. This story is developing. Stay tuned for details. In the meantime… Sing it [...]
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Monday, March 22nd, 2010
TeeLynn: “Writer. Geek. Mental health advocate. Sarcastic smartypants.” My friend and fellow Yalie, TeeLynn, recently blogged about dealing with the pain of a break up–or not. What gets on my everlasting nerves are those passive-aggressive folks who, instead of dealing with their hurt and disappointment, hand their emotional baggage to their children to lug around. [...]
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Why is today made of awesome sauce, you ask? Why is it gonna be lovely? First, this afternoon, El Ex and I are signing on the dotted line with our fabulous agent, Danielle Chiotti of Upstart Crow Literary Agency. Danielle will rep up us, shopping our co-parenting book proposal around to publishing houses. Fingers crossed [...]
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Why is today made of awesome sauce, you ask? Why is it gonna be lovely? First, this afternoon, El Ex and I are signing on the dotted line with our fabulous agent, Danielle Chiotti of Upstart Crow Literary Agency. Danielle will rep up us, shopping our co-parenting book proposal around to publishing houses. Fingers crossed [...]
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Since TechBoo started a new job last fall, he doesn’t have the same access to email and phone that he did in his previous job. So when he texted me to see how my meeting went this morning with the agent who is interested in the co-parenting book that El Ex and I are co-authoring, [...]
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Since TechBoo started a new job last fall, he doesn’t have the same access to email and phone that he did in his previous job. So when he texted me to see how my meeting went this morning with the agent who is interested in the co-parenting book that El Ex and I are co-authoring, [...]
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
I’d like you to turn your attention to one of my blog-sisters, a fellow AntiRacistParent, and a fellow Yalie: Liana Roxanne Clark. She is a mom, maintains a wonderful blog, AND is a teen doc and medical director. Her latest post, “On Being Clean”, advocates for getting rid of the false “dirty/clean” dichotomy when we [...]
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
I’d like you to turn your attention to one of my blog-sisters, a fellow AntiRacistParent, and a fellow Yalie: Liana Roxanne Clark. She is a mom, maintains a wonderful blog, AND is a teen doc and medical director. Her latest post, “On Being Clean”, advocates for getting rid of the false “dirty/clean” dichotomy when we [...]
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