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Monday, March 30, 2015 9:08:04 PM
Meaghan Morelli wrote a blog post titled FAT:
Meaghan said, "I cannot believe that I am sitting down at my computer about to write what I'm about to write:My bright, hilarious, inquisitive, soulful, beautiful eight-year-old daughter says she is fat.And she's not just saying she's fat. Tonight, she tried to..." more
Saturday, December 13, 2014 7:34:11 PM
Meaghan Morelli wrote a blog post titled Forward Motion:
Meaghan said, "(SPOILER ALERT: If you are one of the grandparents of the Not So Little One, please stop reading now, lest you spoil your Christmas surprise.)While creating this year’s holiday photo books for the Not So Little One’s grandparents (Mom, Dad, I..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 11:54:25 PM
Meaghan Morelli wrote a blog post titled Angels:
Meaghan said, "December 14, 2012, I saw the words "shooting at Newtown elementary school" creep into my Twitter feed. I was at my desk in my office in Darien, CT, 25 or so miles away from Newtown. My husband grew up in Newtown. His father spent most of his..." more
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 1:11:05 PM
Meaghan Morelli wrote a blog post titled The Real ABCs of GMOs:
Meaghan said, "I like to think of myself as an informed consumer, at least when it comes to food. Being a food writer and regular farmers’ market shopper, I’ve been pretty comfortable in that assertion for years. In my family, we buy a lot of organic foods,..." more
Thursday, May 5, 2011 5:25:01 PM
Meaghan Morelli wrote a blog post titled The Bin Laden Effect:
Meaghan said, "I woke up on the morning of September 12, 2001 in my fiancé’s apartment on the 23rd floor of his building on 39th Street in Manhattan. Neither of us had slept much at all, of course. And after that first foggy moment between sleep and waking when..." more
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 9:43:54 PM
Meaghan Morelli wrote a blog post titled Woah:
Meaghan said, "My headspace has been occupied with Single Mamahood quite a lot recently.Duh, you say.Sure, I've been at this Single Mamahood thing for a while now, and I've written about it here. But it's been on my brain more than usual because I've been working..." more
Monday, April 11, 2011 9:42:28 AM
Meaghan Morelli wrote a blog post titled Snack Time Snafu:
Meaghan said, "Last week, the Little One and I headed out for a playdate with friends. I told her to pack up the toys she wanted to bring, usually an assortment of microscopic animal figures and their molecule-sized accessories, most of which have a nasty habit of..." more
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 8:09:05 PM
Meaghan Morelli wrote a blog post titled Band of Mothers:
Meaghan said, "Single Mamahood requires a lot of creativity. Single Mamahood as a freelance writer demands suspension of disbelief. It's a little like medieval warfare.You get a gig, you lose a gig. You hustle. You work your ass rump off for just about everyone,..." more
Monday, December 6, 2010 1:16:17 PM
Meaghan Morelli wrote a blog post titled All I Want For Christmas Is...:
Meaghan said, "The Little One has been at it again, and I'm just too proud not to share. She wrote her own letter to Santa this year, for the first time ever. (That's a rendering of her and the Big Man there at the bottom.)As expected, there's plenty of girlie..." more
Monday, October 11, 2010 6:53:02 PM
Meaghan Morelli wrote a blog post titled Early Childhood Literacy: The Freudian Stage:
Meaghan said, "What can I say? She sounded it out all by herself. I await the inevitable call from her preschool teacher. Hey, at least she's spelling."
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 6:08:38 PM
Meaghan Morelli wrote a blog post titled Soul Garden:
Meaghan said, "Ladies, I've reached the six-month mark of single-mamahood.The sky hasn't fallen. We're not living on a park bench. We even have a little garden growing on the balcony of our new apartment, a feat I never managed to accomplish as a stay-at-home-mama..." more
Sunday, June 20, 2010 7:02:48 PM
Meaghan Morelli wrote a blog post titled All the Single Mamas:
Meaghan said, "Well Mamas, Happy Father's Day.It's a funny thing, Father's Day, when you're a single Mama. Especially the first one on your own. What to do? Wine with lunch? Dress all in black? Pedicure? Yoga? Fly to Vegas?For my first post-kiddo, unattached..." more
Thursday, May 20, 2010 7:53:02 AM
Meaghan Morelli wrote a blog post titled The Power of Positive Thinking: We Rock:
Meaghan said, "When you hear the term "daily affirmation," it can conjure up some pretty silly images. (Remember Stuart Smalley?)But just watch this little girl put some serious affirmations to work in front of her bathroom mirror.Sure, it's cute--"I like my..." more
Sunday, May 2, 2010 8:20:34 AM
Meaghan Morelli wrote a blog post titled Hey, Ho, Let's Go!:
Meaghan said, "We were up early today. When I heard the first "Mama?" I think the clock read 5:58 am. There's much about the arrival of summertime that I await with gleeful anticipation. The earlier wake-ups brought on by the earlier sunrise, though? Not so much...." more
Sunday, March 28, 2010 10:17:33 PM
Meaghan Morelli wrote a blog post titled It's My Birthday, Too, Yeah:
Meaghan said, "Well, this week is my birthday week. But hold onto your Botox vials, ladies; this year, I'm trying to look at things a little differently. (At least when I'm not standing in direct sunlight.)Recently, I attended the birthday dinner of a dear,..." more
Monday, March 22, 2010 8:16:12 PM
Meaghan Morelli wrote a blog post titled Hello? Is This Thing On?:
Meaghan said, "Well, Mamas, it seems I've taken an unexpected--and unannounced--sabbatical.Had I more foresight, I might have warned you that I'd be checking out for awhile.But who knew that single motherhood was this overwhelming? (Probably at least a few of you..." more
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 4:02:01 AM
Meaghan Morelli wrote a blog post titled V Day:
Meaghan said, "I kind of totally forgot about Valentine's Day this year.It's not really a holiday I generally count down to anyway. But this year? Oblivious.This lead to something of a scramble yesterday, when I read an email from the Little One's teacher,..." more
Monday, February 1, 2010 5:20:29 AM
Meaghan Morelli wrote a blog post titled Vote Joy!:
Meaghan said, "Good morning, Mamas! You may have been wondering where the heck I've been lately.Well, I'll tell you. I've been hard at work on several projects, the most exciting of which I want to share with you. Many of you know about my love for and support of..." more
Sunday, January 17, 2010 3:27:09 PM
Meaghan Morelli wrote a blog post titled Save the Children: Haiti:
Meaghan said, "Heart wrenching reports of despair and miracles continue to flow out of Haiti, in the wake of last week's devastating earthquake. The expected comparisons to Katrina or the Asian tsunami continue to attempt to frame the discussion and international..." more
Monday, January 11, 2010 8:31:49 AM
Meaghan Morelli wrote a blog post titled Amy's Harvest:
Meaghan said, "So, you think mid-January is the wrong time to turn your thoughts toward gardening? Yep, me too. Until my talented and horticulturally advanced friend Amy taught me a thing or two, that is.Did you know that late February is an ideal time to purchase..." more
Monday, January 4, 2010 6:08:30 AM
Meaghan Morelli wrote a blog post titled Reentry:
Meaghan said, "A week at Grandma's house has done much to thwart all my good child-rearing habits. As usual.A script from this morning:Little One: Good morning, Mama. Let's watch something on TV.Mama: Why don't we have breakfast?Little One: Yes! Cookies and..." more
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 8:04:43 AM
Meaghan Morelli wrote a blog post titled Vacation, All I Ever Wanted:
Meaghan said, "This is vacation week for me and the Little One. By vacation, I mean a week in the frozen expanse of Northwestern Ohio at my mother's house. Ice underfoot, steel grey skies overhead and relatives for days.No fruity drinks with little umbrellas in..." more
Monday, December 28, 2009 9:37:18 AM
Meaghan Morelli wrote a blog post titled Happy New Year:
Meaghan said, "It wasn't all that long ago when I wrote something here about change and my Little One's infectious, relentless optimism. That day, as every other, I learned an important lesson or two from her.As 2009 is packing the last of its bags for departure,..." more
Monday, December 21, 2009 12:28:26 PM
Meaghan Morelli wrote a blog post titled Great Joy:
Meaghan said, "The countdown to Christmas has reached a critical point: T minus four days, and counting.In the last minute scramble for things Merry and Bright, the essence of Christmas can sometimes be lost, buried under so much tinsel.Kate DiCamillo's story of..." more
Friday, October 13, 2017 7:34:28 PM
Meaghan Morelli updated the biography on her profile page