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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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Our contributors:
Bjird is a writer and high school teacher of developmentally disabled students. Working on a successful drive to restore funding to the elementary art, music and PE programs in the Austin, Texas school district taught her that being an activist mom can improve the lives of every kid in the city. She lives in Austin with her husband and two sons, who rarely give her permission to write about them. She is also a frequent contributor to happywomanmagazine.com, a website that parodies the content of women's magazines.
Cheryl Wenzel is a free-lance writer and blogger who writes on a variety of topics
related to women’s issues, motherhood, and her experiences as a 50y
SAHM of 3y boy/girl twins. Her passion is giving women a voice and
promoting more understanding of the experience of motherhood,
especially the transition to motherhood. She is the author of the blog New Mom Central, and blogs for the Silicon Valley Moms Blog, 50-Something Moms Blog, and Gemini Crickets Moms Blog. She has been a guest speaker on Natural Moms Talk Radio, a guest lecturer at San Jose State University, and is writing a book about the transition to motherhood. When Cheryl is not typing away on her laptop, she is chasing her
twin preschoolers and managing the myriad array of activities and
responsibilities of a SAHM—nay, the CEO of Home Relations. During her
rare “downtime” moments she enjoys walking, talking, reading, thinking,
laughing, and hanging out with her family and friends.
Cindy La Ferle has worn several writing hats while being a mom. She was editor of a bed-and-breakfast magazine, a reference book copywriter, writing teacher, and weekly columnist for a metro Detroit daily. Her essays on home and family have been published in the Christian Science Monitor, Reader’s Digest, Mary Engelbreit’s Home Companion, the Literary Mama anthology, and others. A new collection of her essays, Writing Home, won several awards for creative nonfiction. Married 26 years, Cindy and her husband have one college-age son in their almost-empty nest. Cindy is currently at work on a 'midlife motherhood memoir,' chronicling her bittersweet adjustment to her newly emptied nest while caring for her own aging mother. Read her weekly columns on Cindy’s Home Office: www.laferle.com.
Cynthia Samuels has been blogging for two years and has an extensive background
online, on television and in print. In addition to the four years she spent
four 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, 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,).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 Richard Atkins live
in Washington DC. She also blogs at her personal blog Don’t Gel Too Soon. (http://dontgelyet.typepad.com
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.
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. 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. Joanne blogs and exercises her punditry muscles as PunditMom, her personal/political blog, as well as blogging at PunditMom's Spin Cycle, MomsRising, The Soccer Mom Vote, Momocrats and others.
Judi began blogging a little over a year ago in anticipation of her 50th birthday and has been blogging ever since. Her original blog, A Baby Boomer Woman’s Countdown to 50, can be found at ayearto50
. During her extraordinary year she faced an unfortunate illness and subsequent passing of her husband. Judi turned 50 on January 8th this year and began a new blog, aboomerslifeafter50, to continue to create dialogue with other female baby boomers. Her original blog is featured on the Burlington Times Philly Burbs website and was recently featured in a new magazine, Girlfriendz, targeted to women 45+.
While Judi spends many evenings writing her blog, during the day, she is group director of public affairs at a major consumer products company in New Jersey. Judi has a daughter who is graduating from college this year and a son who is a high school senior. She resides in Southern New Jersey.
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.
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's friends always thought she had a “funny but skewed sense of reality;" a great qualification for a blogger. She recently moved to Palo Alto with her 2 teenagers, husband and a wheaten terrier named Daisy. Although she was raised in Texas, she lived San Francisco in the 80’s where she kick-started her advertising career. She fell into a new specialty “high-tech” advertising, though most people thought she was crazy for choosing to talk to software designers instead of laundry detergent product managers. She stopped working outside the home when her now 15-year-old was born and hubby got transferred to France (where #2 child was born). After moves to Scotland and Switzerland, they rested for awhile in Austin before moving back to the Bay Area. Now she itches to get back into the workforce so she can be complimented on something more than folding underwear well, but since she drives her son to and fro from San Jose for school, it doesn’t look like a 9-5 is appearing soon. She read SVMom’s blog while in Austin. She misses her venting sessions with – thus a new blogger is born.
Tekla S. Nee has written about parenting and other subjects for Parenting, BabyTalk, Working Woman,
and other major magazines. She blogged for five years before there was
such a word, writing about her life with three kids for the Palo Alto Daily News. She parlayed that gig into two books, The Mommy Zone: Tales from the Trenches of Parenthood and The Everything Baby's First Year Book.
Neither the books nor the column made real money, so she never gave up
her day job, hiding her supermom cape to masquerade as a mild-mannered
technology journalist working for a major metropolitan magazine.
50 Something Moms Blog is a member of the Silicon Valley Moms Blog Group.
PARTNER AND EDITOR: Tekla S. Nee has written about parenting and other subjects for Parenting, BabyTalk, Working Woman, and other major magazines. She blogged for five years before there was such a word, writing about her life with three kids for the Palo Alto Daily News. She parlayed that gig into two books, The Mommy Zone: Tales from the Trenches of Parenthood and The Everything Baby's First Year Book. Neither the books nor the column made real money, so she never gave up her day job, hiding her supermom cape to masquerade as a mild-mannered technology journalist working for a major metropolitan magazine.
PARTNER AND DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AND P.R.: Jill Asher was the Vice President of Human Resources for software companies during the dotcom boom, and 'basked' in the success of two high profile acquisitions. Following these acquisitions, Jill worked with a venture capital firm to support the human resource needs of their early stage investments. Jill is a former President of the Palo Alto Menlo Park Parent's Club, and is currently consulting as a Human Resource Generalist for early stage, high-tech and biotech firms. In all her spare time, she chauffeurs her daughters to after school classes and activities. On the weekends, she collapses!
PARTNER AND
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY MOM: Beth Blecherman (Beth B.) is a techie turned blogger mom. She started her career in application development, then system auditing, and, most recently, served as Senior Manager, Computer Process Integrity, for Deloitte. Now she races between mom duties raising three young boys and blog meetings; she currently spends what little free time she has tinkering with web 2.0 technology (and is addicted to online social networking).
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