by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Making Memories
Getting Real With Wanda Morrissey When my friends found out what I asked for, and got, for Mother’s Day, they all thought that I was nuts. There reaction ranged from “you wanted an appliance”, said in a tone of complete disbelief, to “won’t that just make more...
by Shadra Bruce | Adult Children, Let's Talk
Dave and I don’t get out much, but have our routines that give us the “us” time we need. We get up at 5 for a cup of coffee together before we have to get the kids going for school. We send the kids to their bedrooms at 8 to get some time on our own...
by Shadra Bruce | Divorce, Doing it Alone, Let's Talk
MomsGetReal™ Poet Extraordinaire Tammy Bartholomew My makeup goes onOver my swollen eyesCan’t you seeIt’s just a disguiseHide the painThis evil spellTrying to get out ofThis living hellSmiling friendsThey think I’m alrightKnow something is wrongFrom the...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Self-Improvement
by Shadra Bruce For most of my adult life, I’ve allowed myself the small indulgence of watching repeats of Bob Ross on PBS whenever I ran across his program. Something about listening to his voice and watching his canvas transform into an amazing picture was...
by Shadra Bruce | Creating Balance, Let's Talk, Raising Healthy Kids
by Shadra Bruce Let’s face it, whether you’re a single parent or just home alone with the kids, there are times when you simply need to take a break. When the kids were younger and Dave was still part of the corporate world, there were times when he was...
by MomsGetReal Guest Contributor | Let's Talk, Raising Healthy Kids
by Veronica Ibarra I recently attended a parent-student workshop at my daughter’s school focused on Positive Behavior Intervention & Support in the Home, an extension of the PBIS they implement at her school. Having worked with troubled teens for ten years,...
