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This Isn’t Goodbye… It’s Follow Me On Medium! I'm closing up shop, and moving my musings to Medium.com!

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A “Medium” Move (In The Right Direction)

This will be my last post on Rock Momma Reviews by Jill V.

Huh?

What?

Am I quitting the writing biz? No way!

What I am doing is moving my musings to Medium! Why? Because it’s easier. Also, right now in my life, it is best that I publish on an established platform, rather than continuing to run this blog all by myself.

Cheaper, too. #realtalk

WordPress can be overwhelming for a novice webmaster, and honestly, my half-ass attempts at coding and dealing with plug-ins and all that is HARD. It also takes up a lot of time that could better be spent on writing.

Yeah, I’d rather just WRITE. Fo’ realz. And Medium allows me to do just that!

I invite you to continue to follow me, but now on Medium at https://medium.com/@doublesmom77. I’ll also keep this site alive and archived (if I am able to- I’m currently trying to learn the process via YouTube tutorials) at https://doublesmom77.github.io. You’ll be able to read my past posts over there, but no new posts will be added. I can also be followed and contacted via twitter at https://twitter.com/DoubleSMom77.

Thanks for reading! I’ve enjoyed the last almost 4 years immensely, and have learned a lot blogging here. I very much look forward to continuing my writing journey on Medium. I hope you’ll join me there!

~Jill V

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Book Review #6: With Ballet in My Soul by Eva Maze An Extraordinary Life, An Extraordinary Woman

Memoirs, I Love Em

The genre of memoir has always been a favorite of mine. Somewhat ‘nosey’ by nature, I tend to enjoy intimate glimpses into lives and experiences of different kinds of people. A few standout memoirs I have read to date include Jeanette Walls’ The Glass Castle, Carly’s Voice by Arthur and Carly Fleischmann, and of course, Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles 1974-2001 by Don Felder.

Don Felder’s slide guitar and Randy Meisner’s bass are SO on point here. Where is my time machine? 1974, please!

Therefore, it comes as no surprise that I thoroughly enjoyed the book With Ballet in My Soul: Adventures of a Globetrotting Impresario by Eva Maze. This memoir is a chronicle of Maze’s amazing life as a 20th century theatrical impresario for the better part of four decades. Continue reading →

No More Excuses. This Week, I Begin Running. Time to get my sorry a** in shape, yo!

Are You There, Motivation To Exercise? It’s Me, Jill.

That’s it. No more excuses. I have a date ….with a healthier lifestyle. Diet. Exercise. All that crap. Truthfully? I’m not looking forward to it. At all. Therefore, I’m giving myself just 1-2 more days to get used to the idea that my lifestyle and habits revolving around diet and fitness must change, and then I’m going to have to stop musing, and start doing.

Time to get my big ol’ a** in gear, folks.

What he said.

Starting ….well, whenever my Amazon Prime package gets here (which I assumed would be yesterday, and was somewhat gladly mistaken, I ain’t gon’ lie), I will be heading to my town’s high school track on a daily basis to (gulp) run. Well, more like walk, at least to start. Continue reading →

Week in Review April 1-April 8: 4 Things I Loved Last Week A Fortnight of Fabulousity, Four Times Over

It’s April, and Much Like Spring, I Have Finally Returned

To start the lovely week, my wonderful husband bought me these flowers.

April showers bring May flowers,
That is what they say,
But if all the showers turned to flowers,
We’d have quite a colorful day!

–From April Showers Bring May Flowers, by Karen Chappell

I’m back, and SO glad that April is finally here! March is definitely the longest and busiest month of the year. Or maybe it just feels that way? Continue reading →

Wishing the Legendary Mr. Randy Meisner A Happy, Happy Birthday 71 Years Ago, A Star Was Born. A Musically Gifted, Sexy AF Star, That Is.

This is a post that I am filing under straight up “fangirling.” I pretty much wrote this for my own enjoyment, and not much else. So if you are reading this, I’m impressed that you found it! Hope you enjoy my adolescent-like musings as well….

Today, one of my two favorite musicians of all time, Mr. Randy Meisner, turns 71 years young. Happy Birthday to one of the most if not the most underrated musicians of all time! Continue reading →

Happy Transferiversary to the Little Embryo that Could (Survive My Killer Uterus, That Is)

One Little, Two Little Embryos

You know its fiction when a petri dish of embryos is just laying on a table, left alone in a room with a person who isn’t a doctor. Still, I love that Friends took on the surrogacy and infertility topic, and later on the adoption and infertility topic as well!

My life completely changed for the better three years ago yesterday. I will always consider October 24, 2013, to be one of the happiest days of my life, though I didn’t know it 100% at the time. At the moment, 10/24/13 was certainly a day filled with hope. It was also a day where I felt strangely confident, even after 5 straight years of failures. Part of me just knew on that particular day that a long struggle was finally ending, and a joyful journey we had been waiting so long for was about to begin. Continue reading →