February’s issue of StepMom Magazine is available online in a web browser near you! It’s full of great articles on Sex, Romance, and True Love. You can read my own love story, “Happily Remarried Ever After” and yes, you do need to subscribe – but with great articles by Wednesday Martin, Mary Kelly-Williams, Jacque Fletcher, [...]
Inoculate Yourself Against the StepMom Flu!
Integrity. Commitment to Excellence. Stubbornly Optimistic!
People pleasers please raise your hands. Ok…I see…one, two, ten, seventeen, fifty, the whole room? Sounds about right. Sister stepmoms, my name is Peggy and I’m a recovering people pleaser.
What exactly is a people pleaser? What do they look like? How do they behave? Raise your hand if you’ve ever [...]
Obsessive Thinking – Ending the Endless Loop of Negativity
Integrity. Commitment to Excellence. Stubbornly Optimistic!
“I can’t get her out of my head.”
“I think about my husband’s ex-wife all the time.”
“I can’t stop thinking that he slept with her.”
“She was his first lover…”
“They were married for seventeen years…”
There’s this saying, “what you think about you bring about,” and for many stepmoms, we think too much. [...]
Stepmom News!
She’s Talking About a Revolution!
And not the “give me liberty or give me death” kind…but the “we can work together” kind!
My friend, Jennifer Newcomb Marine is advocating a revolution in the mother/stepmother relationship! And she’s got Ten Fabulous Reasons why extending the olive branch is in the best interests of everyone…but most importantly, [...]
July's Bonus Mom and Book of the Month!
Bonus Mom and “Book” of the Month for July
Introducing the one and only Brenda Ockun! Publisher of the only online magazine for stepmoms by a stepmom, StepMom.
Brenda and I have teamed up to offer a FREE 2 month subscription to THREE lucky stepmoms who answer three questions at the end of this review!
Ladies, we’re all [...]
Life Minus Expectations = Happiness
An excerpt from my article, which appears in the July issue of the StepMom Magazine!
Danger! Expectations
In my life outside of being a stepmom, I am a systems project manager for a major financial company. As a PM, I understand all too well that poorly defined and / or ever changing requirements lead to miscommunication, [...]








