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School "Welcome" Nights: Fooling Our Kids By Telling Them They Can "Do It All"

2/2/12 11:28am by Uncool Mom
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Have you had to take your child to a school welcome night yet? When they're transitioning from elementary school to junior high, or junior high to high school?  Read more >

Get a Life, Million Moms-- Schweddy Balls is a Non-Issue

10/21/11 7:51am by Uncool Mom
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On the radio today while driving in my minvan, I heard that a few mostly East Coast supermarket chains have chosen to take the controversial ice cream flavor, "Schweddy Balls" by Ben & Jerry's, off their shelves because of pressure from a small but loud group who call themselves One Million Moms.  How sad...  But the real tragedy about this whole "Schweddy Balls" issue is not the knee-jerk reaction of the grocery executives or the product or its "controversial" name, it's that these supposedly "concerned" moms have put so much energy and so much of their precious, limited time  Read more >

The Benefits of Dieting With Your Teenager

8/15/11 7:48am by Uncool Mom
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Recently my 16 1/2-year-old daughter and I embarked on the Atkins diet together.  Read more >

When Your Child's Email is Hacked: One Mom's Look Into the Evil World of Spamming

8/9/11 9:05am by Uncool Mom
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Have we become complacent with spam? Consider it just another "addition" from living in a high tech world that we have to learn to put up with, like unauthorized credit card charges that may never get prosecuted?  Read more >

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Full Name
Patricia
Member Since
January 2009
About Me: 

I am a longtime freelance writer, having written numerous feature articles and columns in Texas publications such as the Dallas Morning News over the past 20 years. I have a Home Economics Journalism degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and a lot of my articles have dealt with home/garden and children/family, so I guess I could say I'm one of the few people who actually work in their degree field!  I am a newspaper junkie, not only writing for them, but one of my top five pastimes is drinking coffee while reading the morning paper.  Unfortunately, less and less people feel the way I do about newspapers, and I realized that if my work is going to get read, I’d better jump into websites and blogging.

I have two daughters, ages 12 and 16.  One is into sports, guitar, piano, singing, Girl Scouts, and fighting global warming; the other is into dance, musical theatre, sleeping as late as possible, and trying to complete parent-taught Driver's Ed in her minimal free time. My husband and two dogs (a Cavachon  named Luke and an "adopted senior" toy poodle named Ben Arffleck) round out our crazy household.
I hope you enjoy my blog, uncoolmom.com.  Please check it out!

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freelance writer
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Texas
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