In my scouring of the vast internet this week, I found a post by a woman in response to a question a friend asked.  The question had something to do with stay at home moms vs work away from home moms.

Her response was something like this - I did not take it word for word - but this is the jist:

"I dislike when women put stay at home mom as their occupation. No. That's not a job. That's a luxury. Is it hard? Yeah, sometimes it's really…

I am not going to name any names, link to any posts or refer to any particular incident here.  Because you, as my real mom readers, could probably care what goes on behind the scenes of the blogging world.  But when I see that opinions and uneducated posts go up about people in this world, the companies they work with and the fans they have, I have to stop and think about the purpose of social media in general.…

Nine months ago I finally got up the backbone to not only ask my ex husband to leave - once again - but the power to actually follow through and make him go.  Not an easy feat but it was the best decision I have made since deciding to have children.

Since then, life has just gotten better.

My confidence has risen to almost…

It is getting old. The hatred, disregard for human life and the march towards complete civil upheaval that seems to decorate our news screen every single minute of every day.

I was blissfully unaware of terror attacks and the inner working of the people that give their lives to protect us from terror cells and the true evil in the world until 9/11. And it took YEARS for me to be able to look up in the sky, see a plane, and not expect it to blow up right overhead.

But in the…