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FEATURE ESSAYS
Main Feature – Cover Story – Interview with Mompreneurs®
Mompreneurs® - Growth and Change of Mom Writers! by Tracy Lyn Moland
Certain people have had strong influences on my life as an entrepreneur and a writer. Two of the most important have been the incredible women that created the world of the Mompreneurs®. Pat Cobe and Ellen Parlapiano joined forces in 1995 to write their best selling and incredibly helpful book, Mompreneurs®: A Mother's Practical Step-By-Step Guide to Work-At-Home Success. Since then, they have received incredible recognition from appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show to presentations to a second book Mompreneurs® Online: Using the Internet to Build Work@Home Success (Perigee, 2001) and an update of their original book. Their work in the field of moms who run their own businesses has turned the word Mompreneurs® into a household name (although keep in mind they do own the trademark.) They have opened many doors for Moms all over the world and made opportunities available in places where before there were none...
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Guest Features
On the Wings of Sanity by Amy Burgess
I just did the most amazing thing. I dozed off on an airplane while reading a magazine. What is happening here? Is it true? Am I really on an airplane without children for the first time since 1999?
It must be happening because I know for a fact I haven't read a magazine on board an airplane since my son was born – I gave up packing reading material years ago – and yet the evidence is here on my lap. OK, so it's a parenting magazine and not Newsweek, but that just makes it all the more astonishing: I'm a mom on an airplane without children...
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Wings of Sanity
Lessons from a Little Nut
by Robin Dutton-Cookston "How ‘bout....go shopping?"
My daughter’s blue eyes popped wide open
with sincerity as she made this unexpected request. In shock, I
momentarily forgot my half-hour long struggle to get her to take a dang
nap. I stared in amazement. My God, she wants to
go shopping! I thought. Where the heck did little
Grace learn to say such a thing?
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from a Little Nut
Yoga, Day 1
by Dawn Mundy Today was the day. I was going to do it. I had free time and
nothing urgent to do – unless you counted the piled up dishes in the
sink, the piled up laundry in the bedrooms, and the piled up dust bunnies
staging a coup in the hallway. I don’t like counting, so instead I got
out my dust covered yoga DVD. Time for some exercise, some breathing,
something healthy for my sagging mind and body...
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Day 1
Confessions of a Pantry Goddess
by Angel Rutledge I think it was on the final lap through
Super Wal-mart last week when it hit me. As the sole member of my family
in charge of food, I have a special power. I realized this as I stood
watching my six-year-old’s Oscar® worthy performance in the cereal aisle.
There she knelt, a box of Chocolate Lucky Charms clutched above her
head, her eyes squeezed shut, imploring, “Mom, please, please, please.
This is the best cereal in the whole entire world. Kirsten’s mom buys it
for her, and if you buy it for me this will be the best summer of my
whole entire life. I’ll only eat a little bit each day, I promise. Plus,
I will not even ask for anything else the whole entire time we are in
this place. Pleeeazz?”
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Confessions of a Pantry Goddess
Open Homes and Open Hearts
by Tammie Smith When I was growing up,
our house was a busy place. My parents believed taking in foster kids
would be a rewarding experience, both for them, and for me. Our home
soon became a chaotic haven for abused kids. At first, this seemed
like a great idea. I would get new playmates. Every child wants new
friends, so what could be wrong with this setup?
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Homes and Open Hearts
Muses or Not
by Nana Yaa Larbi It was an awesome day
for me on the 10th
of June this year. I met Christine Hohlbaum, who was featured in the
premier edition of this magazine, and it was an amazing thing for me to
meet with someone I had gotten to know via the Web. We connected on so
many levels, and I told her things I haven’t told anyone before. She was
the first to know that I was not happy with the teacher-training program
I was doing and understood perfectly when I described what writing meant
to me. She shared a lot of things that I could relate to, and listening
in on her Following your Dream telecast a few weeks back really helped
me make the firm decision to take a step of faith and stop the teaching
program; but one of the things she said, that I couldn’t quite relate
to, was the fact her children were her muses...
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Not
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