About 50-Something Moms Blog & Our Contributors.....
About the 50-Something Moms Blog
Welcome to 50-Something Moms Blog - Hot flashes and hot lunches, perimenopause and puberty, saving for retirement and paying for college--you've really got it all, even if you're not sure this is the all you really wanted. You're a 50-something Mom.
50-Something Moms Blog is looking for a few more great writers. If you can write about your life and parenting with coherency and humor, let us know. Include links to previously published blog posts or at least two sample posts.
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50-Something Moms Blog is a member of the Silicon Valley Moms Group. Other blogs in the group include DC Metro Moms Blog , New York City Moms Blog, Chicago Moms Blog, Los Angeles Moms Blog, Silicon Valley Moms Blog and New Jersey Moms Blog. Soon to launch: MidWest Moms Blog, Pacific North West Moms Blog, Philadelphia Moms Blog and Rocky Mountain Moms Blog.
Our contributors:
Alicia loves theology, politics, and poetry, and she's finally started working on "that book inside of her." She blogs about her life as a mother-daughter-widow at Forever Changed. Having lived all over the country -- Los Angeles, Boston, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Chicago, and Washington, DC -- she's not sure where "home" is anymore, but she currently lives near Tucson, Arizona, and daydreams about the Sonoma County coastline.
Amy has been married for 23 years, her husband says it has been the
happiest 40 years of his life – he is very funny. You may sometimes see
her referred to by her married name, Levinson. After 23 years she is
still contemplating a full name change. Professionally it is Zimmerman
all the way. She is the mother of two teens, Danny – a HS junior and Jana – a
college sophomore. They are both the light of her life – a crazy woman
who just happens to love teenagers.Amy is a graphic designer by trade and works in the PR, Marketing,
Pharmaceutical, Special Events and Corporate Design industries. Her
work includes creative strategizing and project management as well as
art direction and design. She has worked in just about every market,
from beer to blood pressure meds. Blogging is her latest passion, a
medium she has been waiting for her whole life.She has been a WAHM since way before we had a name for it. In fact,
at the beginning of her motherhood women had to say things like, “I am
sorry, I can’t make that meeting, I have a conflict” which translated
into: “Sorry, I have to take my kid to the doctor”.Thankfully the working world has evolved and women are now able to
strike their own balance, retaining a professional life while still
being the kind of parents they want to be – a fact she celebrates every
day. Amy blogs about the antics and absurdities of everyday life at i could cry but i don't have time. She also keeps a photo blog, leaving the zip code, that encourages living outside the comfort zone. Reader submissions are encouraged.
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Ann Bibby is an American writer currently living in western Canada. A former
public school teacher with dozens of sci-fi/urban fantasy short stories
littering her desk, she is also writing her memoir and dreaming of
becoming a columnist in addition to blogging at 50 something Moms and
her own personal blog, anniegirl1138.
A wife, mom, step-mom and budding yogina, she hopes to one day be able
to remove the "struggling and unpublished" adjectives from her bio
which, with luck, will happen before she dies because the Emily
Dickinson model is a poor one for a writer to emulate, in her opinion.xx
Cynthia
Samuels has
been blogging for three years and has an extensive background online, on
television and in print. In addition to the four years she spent at
iVillage, she served as Children’s Book Editor for Amazon.com and one of the
first site reviewers for EXCITE. She spent most of her professional life
as a broadcast journalist, as senior national editor at NPR, political producer
of NBC's Today Show, where she worked for nine years, and Executive Producer of the teen newscast Channel
One. Author of It’s A
Free Country, a Young Person’s Guide to Politics and Elections (Atheneum,
1988,) and dozens of articles and book reviews, Samuels is a partner in
Cobblestone Associates, LLP, is married and has two
grown sons, both of whom work in the computer gaming industry. She and
her husband Dr. Richard Atkins, currently a first-year law student, live in
Washington DC. She also blogs at her personal blog Don’t Gel Too
Soon. (http://dontgelyet.typepad.com
Darryle Pollack started her blog,"I Never Signed Up for This",
in honor of all the times she has said those words--as a mother, breast
cancer survivor, artist, writer, chocoholic, tv journalist, Yale
graduate, procrastinator, and wife (because her husband always says he
comes last on her list). Absolutely nothing turned out the way she
expected---and the path of her life continues to be as disorganized as
her desk and as jagged as the pieces in her mosaics. This includes
her entrance into the blogosphere----via the Huffington Post---- and the creation of her latest project, Cluttercast, Connecting Through Clutter.
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Donna Schwartz Mills has been a rock journalist, a television production assistant, a freelance sitcom writer, a meeting and convention planner, and a mom who blogs. If she had been born a cat, she’d now be halfway through her nine lives, which she figures is just about right. Donna lives with her husband, middle school daughter, two cats and a goldfish in Southern California, a locale that provides her with plenty of fodder for her main blog,SoCalMom. She also writes reviews at SoCal Stuff, and contributes to the political blog,Momocrats . She is an emeritus member of the Writers Guild of America.
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Jennifer Wagner writes the popular blog, Connect with your Teens through Pop Culture and Technology. Parents can often seem to be behind the curve since whats "hot" in both technology and pop culture often changes so rapidly. Having had to be tech-savvy for her recent jobs and being a pop-culture addict helped Jennifer actually appear slightly cool to her teens so she thought it would be fun to share that knowledge. Jennifer has both an M.L.S. and a J.D. degree and has been working with Internet research for years now. She was also the coordinator of a conference program titled “Multitasking Millennials” and previously ran a computer school for kids. She also writes both a Parenting Teens and a Television page for the Examiner.com.
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Joanne has
always been crazy about Washington, D.C., but finally got to move to
the area in 1988. After spending a decade in the "glamorous" world of
broadcast news, Joanne gave law school a spin, practicing law at firms
and a government agency in D.C. It finally became apparent to Joanne
that writing (not the legal kind!) was her real passion, so to ring in
the new century she bagged her law practice and took up freelance
writing full time.
Joanne has a eight-year-old daughter who she and her husband adopted from China. She is also stepmom to two adult daughters. When she's not writing, blogging or mainlining Project Runway reruns, she's thinking about how she can get more stamps in her passport and how to convince her husband that it's time to drink those bottles of Ornellaia and Solaia he's been saving. Joanne lives with her daughter and husband in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C., just close enough to be able to almost-honestly say she lives in Washington! Joanne's freelance work has appeared in many national and regional publications, including The Washington Post, Washingtonian Magazine, The Washington Examiner, as well as on The Huffington Post, MSN and Marketplace Radio. She's trying to compete with Sarah to see how many blogs she can write for. Joanne blogs and exercises her punditry muscles as PunditMom, her personal/political blog, as well as blogging at MomsRising, MOMocrats and is a Contributing Editor for Politics & News at BlogHer.
Lollie Peep is a former single mom who
is living her life backwards. Divorced when her daughter was a year old, she
raised her alone for 17 years. In her old life she worked for major newspapers
in Detroit, Louisville and Atlanta and traveled across the country representing
the Chicago Tribune and on special assignment for Tribune Media
Services. In her new life she married a
self-proclaimed “Propeller Head” with two teenagers, bringing the current number
of kids they are putting through college at the same time to
three. She and “StumpDiddy” (as her daughter
calls him) spent the first two years of their marriage living in Atlanta and
Paris (the real one in France, not Texas or Kentucky) where she spent
hours immersed in French culture and French pastries. They currently live on The
Main Line in Philadelphia. Besides blogging and dispensing motherly
advice to anyone who will listen, Lollie is finally following her bliss. She has
a thriving design business and works with several local theatres on the costume
crew. Her vision quest is to design a clothing line for her fellow Baby Boomers
who aren’t ready to give up on fashion.
Sadly, born and raised in a suburb of Philadelphia, Lucia
Davies is truly a product of her times (the ‘60’s and ‘70’s) and environment
(stifling small town-itis). After escaping to NYC at the age of 19 and then to
L.A. at 24, she vowed that if she ever had a child, she’d raise it in a city.
She was good to her word. While raising her daughter in a stimulating
environment, Lucia has worked as an actress, been married once-in-a-while,
worked like a dog in advertising, bought her own house, and written two novels.
But being a mom has definitely been the most thrilling, terrifying,
exhilarating, gratifying, exhausting and spiritually uplifting adventure of her
life. Her personal blog is TheNew30, she also blogs at the Los Angeles Moms Blog.
Marsha Cuttill-Price never anticipated that watching episodes of the
Brady Bunch in the ‘70’s would prepare her to live it in real life, but
as a mother of two and step-mother of four she finds that she relates
more to Carol Brady than to Mary Tyler Moore these days. As a newlywed
and stepmother, Marsha has a unique outlook on mid-life.
Marsha has been teaching for 25 years and spends the majority of her day hanging out with middle school children, teaching them to write and hopefully impacting the way they view the world. She holds two master’s degrees in education (elementary and administration), which she finds ironic since she no longer teaches elementary school, and is not interested in becoming a principal.
She began blogging over three years ago as an outlet of musing, writings and journaling after experiencing a painful life experience (Breathings of the Heart). Through writing she found healing, purpose and the return of her sense of humor. Though writing for 50-something Moms is her first venture outside her own “blogshere”, she hopes that it won’t be the last.
Residing in Central Illinois with her husband and four of her six children, Marsha longs for—well a few minutes alone, but wouldn’t know what to do if she had them. Her life in Illinois may seem a bit crazy, but one thing is for sure—there will never be a shortage of material to write about..
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Martha has 4 kids born between 1988 and 1996; a drama queen, an actor, a semi-goth and a jock..a family that came together by open adoption, in-vitro fertilization(twins) and surprise. 2 girls, 2 boys, oldest in college, youngest dealing with the challenges of Type 1 (Juvenile) diabetes. As a parent, she's worked full time, part-time, job shared, worked at home and even had a couple of SAHM stints. She's currently working full time as the media director for a high-tech public-relations agency after spending 25 years as a TV news writer, producer and executive. Her husband is a 1960s Berkeley radical who grew up to be a politically conservative attorney. She's a classic East-coast bred liberal, which makes for interesting conversations and the reality that they cancel each other out every time they go to the polls. She can be very cranky if she's not in the middle of reading at least one good book at any given time.
Myrna blogs from the heart of Silicon Valley. She moved back about a year ago and can’t believe she ever left. Although, when she last lived here, things were a little different. Her life centered around her Advertising career and locating the best restaurant and bar for friend meet-ups. Giving up her high-tech centered career for one involving diapers was necessary when she and her husband moved overseas. After giving birth in Toulouse (can you say pain in French?) they happily relocated twice more before coming back to the U.S. where they put down roots in Austin, Texas before coming back to the Bay Area. Myrna volunteers for her kids schools (they will be gone soon you know) and is a social media junkie. Life as a 50-Something mom has never been so good! Myrna also write for her blog about teens, TangerineTimes.com.
50 Something Moms Blog is a member of the Silicon Valley Moms Blog Group.
PARTNER - SILICON VALLEY MOMS GROUP & CO-FOUNDER: Jill Asher is a co-founder of the Silicon Valley Moms Group. The idea came to Jill over two years ago (March 2006) to start Silicon Valley Moms Blog, after she finished her one year "Presidency" of PAMP.
After inviting friend after friend to join this "crazy idea" that moms
would want to write about parenting experiences in their regional area,
Jill has watched Silicon Valley Moms Group blossom into over nine collaborative blogging communities. By far, her biggest challenge and greatest joy is motherhood. Jill
and her husband are the proud parents of two elementary school aged
daughters. Jill admits that she is NOT A PERFECT PARENT and fears her
daughter's teenage years. Her girls can be heard running around the
house screaming, "Mommy is blogging again!" and she needs to bribe from
time to time them with treats. Is she allowed to admit that?
On the bright side, Jill really digs living in Silicon Valley and
tries her best to blend in, praying that no one will hear her "New
Jersey accent". Unless, of course, she is royally upset. Jill handles PR, Marketing, Business Development and outreach for this collaborative community.
MANAGING MEMBER, SILICON VALLEY MOMS GROUP: Tekla S. Nee, a cofounder of the Silicon Valley Moms Group, serves as editor-in-chief and CFO for the network of blogs. She has been writing about parenting for more than 25 years for magazines like Parenting, BabyTalk, Working Woman, Special Reports: Family, and Better Health and Living. She blogged for five years before there was such a word, writing a weekly column about about her life with three kids for the Palo Alto Daily News. She's published three books, The Mommy Rescue Guide First Year; The Mommy Zone: Tales from the Trenches of Parenthood; and The Everything Baby's First Year Book (also published in Russian and Chinese). And that's just in her spare time, during the day, she masquerades as a mild-mannered technology journalist working for a major metropolitan magazine.
PARTNER AND
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY MOM: Beth Blecherman (Beth B.) PARTNER (Co-Founder) - SILICON VALLEY MOMS GROUP & CHIEF TECHNOLOGY MOM: Beth Blecherman is a techie turned blogger mom who is in charge of blogging technology and development for the Silicon Valley Moms Group
network. She also works on the outreach/development to obtain new
bloggers and organizing events for the network. Beth started her
career in application development, then system auditing and her last
role was Senior Manager, Computer Process Integrity, for Deloitte. Beth's personal blog is on tips, tricks, and discussions about parents use of technology for their families (Techmamas). When not blogging, she can be found on Twitter, Facebook and tooling around other new online social networking sites...
