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Barbara Bruce is a well-known radio personality in the White Mountains, Arizona.  She hosts a variety of shows, including “The Cutting Edge”, which has a reach into The White Mountain area as well as greater Phoenix AZ.  Today the show airs on NewsTalk 970 KVWM and 1270 KDJI. It focuses on national, state and local [...]

Susan Swanson is the founder of the Stepfamily Center, which serves the Los Angeles and Beverly Hills area.   She is a stepfamily therapist, and stepmom and mom herself.  Susan  hosts a superb, informative weekly radio show for stepfamily members.  Joan Sarin, MS was the guest on the show, and here’s the link: Tuesday, Dec. [...]

The “You Are Not My Mother” contest has concluded, and I’d like to congratulate the two winners: Sherie Touchatt Cooper and Dawn Thomason! If you didn’t win and you have little ones, you’ll want this book for yourself too!  It’s available from Amazon; just click here.  The book will help you to deal in a [...]

The stepmom’s husband (the dad in a stepfamily) experiences a unique set of emotions and challenges.  That’s why I wrote this article in Stepmom Magazine recently, entitled:  Open Letter to Dads I know it sometimes seems that no matter how hard you try, there’s no making everyone happy in your stepfamily – that whoever you [...]

Every stepmom has heard it, more than once: “You Are Not My Mother”. Dawn Yonally, PhD has written a delightful book, geared toward the 6-8 year old crowd, addressing this issue. She takes a humorous and disarming approach, and it is a valuable book to own and share with your young ones. It’s available from [...]