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The Best Products and Services for Working Moms
Here are some of the best products, services, subscriptions and Apps for Working and Entrepreneurial Moms of school aged kids.

Book Review: The Book of M by Peng Shepherd
I am really struggling with rating and reviewing this book. I simultaneously loved and hated it. But my hate is…

Books Black Bookworms are Anticipating in 2019
2018 isn’t even decomposing in its grave and I am on my THANK U, NEXT! . As for books authored…

4 Contemporary Romance Novels Worth Reading
Before 2018, I was quite vocally against Romance Novels. I like a little romance as a sub-plot, I don’t…

Soul Ties
There’s this theme in contemporary romance novels where the guy you dated when you were like 20 (and were likely…

Come Gather your Shady Mean Girl Daughters
Raising a child, especially a child of the same gender, is hard as hell and triggering. My eye still twitches…