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The Nine Minutes

When I was growing up, I remember there was a paperback book on the shelf in my grandparents' basement called The Seven Minutes by Irving Wallace. The book was published in 1969, so I probably found it when I was perusing the shelves in the early 70's when I was 11 or 12. It was VERY risque and graphic, so naturally I had to secretly read it.

  • Posted 1 yr. ago.

Moms Gone Wild - Part 2

As I started to write this post, I was thinking about a potential title and then realized that I already did a post titled Moms Gone Wild this past Fall. I knew my editor would prefer that I get this in soon rather than spend hours trying to come up with something more clever, here it is. Part 2. Through a strange combination of Karma, timing and a generous friend with a beach house, last Thursda…

  • Posted 1 yr. ago.

You've Got a Friend

The secret alter-ego to my blogging self does some behind-the-scenes work on the Mom2Mom website. Every time I work on it, I learn something new and feel compelled to share it, but somehow life intervenes, providing me with current blog fodder and I push these ideas to the back burner.

  • Posted 1 yr. ago.

Not Gonna Sugarcoat It....Night Sweats

We can talk here, right? We’ve come a long way, baby…and all that jazz. We are finally learning to celebrate our womanhood and the bodies that come with it. We bonded borrowing tampons in high school. We went through birthing classes with not just our partner, but with several other couples. We sit on park benches with total strangers comparing birth stories as our kids push each othe…

  • Posted 1 yr. ago.

Real Women Don't Model

Real women don't model. We've known that all of our lives. Even the kids pictured alongside the toys in the much-anticipated Sears Christmas catalog were too good to be true. As much as I realize that what I see on the pages of magazines and catalogs does not reflect reality, it didn't really hit home until I had a daughter. I began thinking about her growing up with such a skewed perception of be…

  • Posted 1 yr. ago.

No News is No News

My name is Diane and I am addicted to the morning. I'm not really sure what coffee tastes like when not accompanied by a touch of local news, national news and editorials.

  • Posted 1 yr. ago.

This Economy Needs a Country Song

Despite so-called indications that the economy is turning around, I'm sure not seeing it. You see, my house has been on the market for about 8 months now. We have dropped the price to almost $100,000 LESS than the tax value. People come and look. But we haven't had an offer yet.

  • Posted 1 yr. ago.

Yes darling, Mommy IS a hypocrite!

We Moms love to whine boast about all the things we do that keep us so busy and stressed. Any given day you will find any given Mom:

  • Posted 1 yr. ago.

Much Maligned Monday

Last week I spit in the eye of conventional Monday wisdom. Friday was all freelance work capped off by a frustrating conference call...I think I'm going to start charging double for conference calls. Saturday I purposely hibernated, alternately reading and watching recorded episodes of my guilty pleasure, The Closer. Sunday I did schoolwork and more stuff like Saturday.

  • Posted 1 yr. ago.

Is Kindle a Verb?

My name is Di and I am a technology junkie. I had e-mail back when it was on Prodigy and the dial-up connection was a blindingly fast 1,200 bps. Of course, I only knew one other person on Prodigy...my husband's friend's Dad, so it was a far cry from my 349 Facebook friends. When I worked for a small consulting firm in Miami, I was responsible for the "company e-mail address," which I dutifully che…

  • Posted 1 yr. ago.
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Live and Let Di

Diane is a TriangleMom2Mom featured blogger, appearing every Wednesday. 

I try to be the voice of Moms with teens. My daughter Haley is 17. She's at that age where she is convinced that I know nothing. I'm thinking I'll seem a lot smarter when she's 22. We bond over Broadway shows, Glee and the occasional book. She did all of her college applications on her own and wouldn't even let her editor Mom look at her essays! She will leave in August to attend the University of Florida. Go Gators! The jury is still out as to whether or not Mom will experience the empty nest blues.

My son Rory is 15. He started reading the sports page when he was 5 and his passion for anything sports-related has grown ever since. Last year he beat out 9 guys in their 40s to win his Fantasy Football League. Watch for him on ESPN in a few years. He is now on the golf team at his high school and routinely making me look bad on the golf course!

I work as a freelance writer and editor...mostly in a t-shirt and sweats. It's my dream job and I love every second of it! My husband and I are recently separated and trying to keep our focus on keeping things as normal as possible for the kids and keeping a positive attitude toward the future.

Diane appears Wednesdays on TriangleMom2Mom. Read more about Diane on her blog Live and Let Di. 

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Meet! Melissa Jordan

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Meet! Suzanne Gavis

Suzanne Gavis of Fuquay-Varina isn't taking it easy while adjusting to the empty-nest stage of parenting. While her son, Hunter, is settling in to college life as a freshman at N.C. State, she's learning the ropes of life as an entrepreneur.

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Family fun this weekend

Egg hunts, etc. Breakfast with the Easter Bunny  9:30 a.m. March 31. Free to adult with dependent members; $5 for nonmembers. Alexander Family YMCA, 1603 Hillsborough St., Raleigh. 919-832-9622. www.ymcatriangle.org. Egg Hunt

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This weekend 3/16

Family fun

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Weekend fun 3/2

Family fun Cotton Mill Colic: Songs of Labor from the North Carolina Piedmont Musician Gregg Kimball and singers Jackie Frost and Sheryl Warner will perform songs from Piedmont cotton mills. 2 p.m. Sunday. Free. N.C. Museum of History, 5 E. Edenton St., Raleigh. http://ncmuseumofhistory.org. Time for Tots: Saint Patrick's Day

  • Posted 2 mon. ago.
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