About Us - Contributors of Chicago Moms Blog
The Chicago Moms blog is a collaborative
group of moms writing about their lives in Chicago, Ill., where moms
endure “El” construction on the way to work, navigate their way into
tight parking spots, push strollers through slushy sidewalks, and
occasionally indulge in a shopping spree on Michigan Avenue, if, that,
is, they can get sitters.
Contact Us by email: info(at)svmoms(dot)com
Our Legal Guru/Lawyer: Linsey Krolik
Our OH-SO-FABULOUS Graphic Designer (banner and buttons): Kris Loew
Our URL: http://www.chicagomomsblog.com
Chicago Moms Blog is a member of the Silicon Valley Moms Group. Other blogs in the group include Silicon Valley Moms Blog, DC Metro Moms Blog , New York City Moms Blog, Los Angeles Moms Blog, 50-Something 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.
Come and meet the Chicago Moms Bloggers:
Alma moved to Chicago at 18 to attend the U of C and never left. She married her college sweetheart at 23 and the two lived in Hyde Park, Lincoln Park and Lakeview before finding the perfect neighborhood in Oak Park and starting a family. The two share their 100-year-old house with their two aging cats and two growing girls. Z was born in November 2004 and A joined her sister in July 2007.
Alma works for love and money as an associate creative director at big agency, specializing in the emerging field of shopper marketing.
Occasional pangs of working mommy-guilt are assuaged by husband Josh, who’s able to squeeze grocery shopping, cooking, laundry and a whole lot of childcare into his freelance writing schedule.
When she’s not working, blogging, sleeping, or wiping someone’s face or butt, you can probably find Alma bargain hunting, organizing a playgroup outing or looking up contractors on Angie’s List. If the day had more hours, she’d finish some long-neglected knitting projects and pull the weeds from her garden. Alma writes about her life and the issues that drive her batty at Marketing Mommy.
Amy Sue Nathan is a writer and single mom living South of I-80 with her two teenagers and their three dogs. Amy grew up in
Philadelphia but considers Chicago home even though she will never call soda -
Pop - or believe anything eaten with a fork is really pizza.
Amy's articles and essays can be seen been at the the New York Times online, The Chicago Tribune, Chicago Parent, Chicago Tribune Online, Huffington Post, Huffington Post Chicago, Washington Post Online, MotherWords Magazine, MotherVerse Literary Journal, Underwired magazine and regional publications from sea to shining sea. She also has stories in A Cup of Comfort for New Mothers and Six Sentences Volume 2.
Amy blogs about life and motherhood at Suburban Kvetch. She also blogs about writing at creatively titled, Amy Sue Nathan: Writer, Editor, Single Mom.
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Angela Allyn is an artist and administrator who lives in Mildred the Magic House. She is married to photographer Matt Dinerstein
and is attempting to raise three artist children and has decided it was
easier to roll around art galleries dressed as primordial slime as she
did in her youth. She blogs at Domestic Blitz.
Carrie
is a word-nerd mommy, a former full-time newspaper reporter, a lapsed
world traveler and a recent returnee to the Midwest. She grew up in a
dead Wisconsin auto town, came of age in Madison, Wisconsin, and Paris,
began her career in Beijing, and started her family in San Francisco.
These days you'll find her in Oak Park, just outside Chicago, toting
around baby Pebbles, trying to reason with preschooler Nutmeg, helping
husband Epu fix up their recently purchased Oak Park home, and trying
to get her bearings as a semi-suburban stay-at-home mother.
Carrie
may forget the kids' doctor appointments but always finds time to
marvel at their latest linguistic developments. She's shoehorning in a
little freelance writing and blogging, and longs for the day when she
can get back to writing that future Oprah Book Club novel and maybe
even a few poems, which her husband says are her forte. Perhaps this
day will come when Carrie's blog, My Funny, Funny Family,
becomes lucrative enough to pay for a cleaning lady who comes every
ding-dang day. Dare to dream, that's what Carrie says. Carrie also
writes about personal finance for Wise Bread.
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Catherine McNiel was born in Chicago, but spent her childhood enjoying the open air in rural Wisconsin and Minnesota. She moved back to ChicagoLand in 1995 and has been here ever since (except for a year or so when she was living in India and Switzerland). Her loves including reading, writing, books, blogs, deep thoughts, music, nature, culture, people, traveling, reading books (did I say that one already?), her wonderful California-born husband, and her very adorable sons. Before she took a full time job of chasing her sons, she worked as an International HR Manager for a local organization. Now, she manages to keep herself busy working part time, as well as teaching as an adjunct professor at a local University. Because she tends to ponder everything, she enjoys processing her thoughts and experiences at her personal blog, everyday life as lyric poetry and building local community at Dupage Mamas.
Caitlin has a great gig . .
. and she knows it. Formerly well-tailored, manicured, and regularly
shampooed, she traded Cook County courtrooms for the Chicago park scene
with her two constant companions: four-year-old Eleanor and two-year-old
Brendan. Their collective interests include riding the carousel
at the Lincoln Park Zoo, cruising the Wicker Park neighborhood in their
massive double stroller, and pretending the bathtub is a spaceship.
She also has a handsome husband who makes an amazing halibut with buerre
blanc. Lucky girl. When she can get her kids napping at
the same time, Caitlin masquerades as a freelance writer. Find
her at A Hen and Two Chicks, Parenting Squad and Chicago Parent.
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Cindy Fey lives in Wilmette with her TV ad-cutting husband and her two curly-haired pre-school age daughters. She has degrees from universities in three states starting in "I" which helps tremendously when the kids are hungry and the pasta water won't boil any damn faster. Cindy taught speech, TV, film and English for eight years at a Chicago all-boys high school, but nowadays her daughters are her teachers and she's the student. (B average with a few A+ days here and there.) You can read her tales of mothering and movies, grief and grace, books and blunders at her blog, We All Fall Down.
Cheryl O'Donovan met her husband at a tire shop, had her kids in her late 30's and wonders if the chiropractor will accept beads and trinkets as payment. Cheryl forged a 22-year career in corporate communications and advertising before being offered a lucrative contract making paper airplanes. Her exuberant boys steal brooms to make light sabers. (They're Dooku, Mom's koo-koo). Her IT consulting husband graduated summa cum laude from Grouch Tech. And the dog flunked obedience school three times. Find her humor column, "Van Mom Strikes Again," every Thursday in Pioneer Press papers in Schaumburg, Hoffman Estates and Elk Grove Village, and occasionally in Arlington Heights, Buffalo Grove, and Palatine.
Cynthia spent her single girl life trading stocks. Who would have thought that going toe to toe with traders was the easy part? Those days are soooo over.
These days, when she is not chasing after her two toddlers, she does
blog design and illustration through her design site (NW Designs). You can also find her writing at The Chronicles of a SAHM.
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Elizabeth is a Chicago-based freelance writer, specializing in technology.Formerly
a road warrior in the IT industry, she exited a management career
seeking balance. These days, Elizabeth is homeschooling and living
frugal with her supporting/supportive Icelandic husband, happy son, and
stupid dog.
She's been threatening "Do that and I'll SO blog you!" to her friends and family since 2004.
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Elizabeth (Liz) LaCroix is the mother of daughters Nourit and Avital
and has finally found the occupation she really enjoys the most.
Unfortunately, motherhood doesn't pay the rent, so she spends her
afternoons as a grant administrator and her evenings as a piano teacher
while her hubby finishes his Ph.D. After that happens, she plans to
retire and eat Vosges chocolates on the couch. Or go back to
collaborative ventures with other musicians that really don't pay much,
but are challenging and inspiring. Originally from the Cereal City in
Michigan, Liz has lived and studied piano and French in Detroit, Paris,
Windsor, and Boston before settling in Hyde Park, Chicago, 5 years ago
with her husband. Since her oldest became mobile, Liz rarely gets to
play the piano anymore, but is excited about blogging since it gives
her a chance to be creative again. Quietly. While the kids are
sleeping. She can also be found documenting and trying to make sense
of her daily life at sulali.blogspot.com.
Farrah Brown is a military kid that actually considers Florida to be home. She came to Chicago to attend Wheaton College in 1995 and, as fate would have it, met and married a Chicago guy. Besides a brief stint on the east coast (Baltimore) for nursing school at Johns Hopkins University, she has been here ever since. And although she misses the beach and sweet tea, Chicago is starting to grow on her too.
Farrah works part time as a cardiac interventional nurse at a local hospital in the western suburbs to keep her nursing skills current and give her at least one day a week with adult conversation. She also runs her own small work-at-home business, BabyLove Slings, making and selling beautiful handmade ring-sling baby carriers. But the job she truly cherishes is the one of mommy to her two boys (born in 2006 and 2008) and beagle pup. Life certainly keeps her on her toes!
Besides her husband and sons and puppy, her other passions include babywearing, attachment parenting, the beach, and most recently Bravo TV! When not sewing, chasing boys or catching up on Project Runway, Farrah spends her "spare time" writing about the joys and pains of motherhood and babywearing at BabyLove Slings. Farrah also writes for her newest project, Dupage Mamas, a voice and resource for mamas in the western suburbs.
Gillian Marchenko has given birth three
times in three cities, the most interesting of them being Kiev, Ukraine.
Currently, she lives on the North Side of Chicago with Sergei, her husband of
ten years and their daughters, all of whom share the patronym Sergeyevna.
Gillian speaks Russian and has a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications with
an emphasis on creative writing. She hates to cook, loves to read and spends
six hours a week in therapy. Unfortunately, the therapy is not for her but for
her two year old daughter who has Down syndrome.
Most Sundays you’ll find Gillian in the back row of the church her husband pastors, bouncing a toddler on her knee and giving her older girls the look. It’s been said that wives of clergy live in fish bowls. Gillian is the first to tell you that her bowl is cracked and most of the water has seeped out. In an effort to breathe, she blogs about parenting, Down syndrome, being the pastor’s wife and somehow, in the midst of it all, being herself at Pocket Lint.
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Irene is the mother of 2 toddler boys who are 16 months apart and she works
outside the home as an IT person. Her husband, a patient and wonderful
man, agreed to put his career on hold and be the stay at home parent.
When she leaves this earth, she wants to be remembered for the
beautiful boys she brought into this world, a wicked sense of humor,
and a raucous and infectious laugh. Her personal blog is Chicago Chick.
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Janelle Marshall is a native Californian, but has been in
Chicago for seven years. It's all due to the fact that she met her husband at
Borders Book Store and fell in love with the man and the city. She's also mom to
15-month-old, Jada. Like every other mother, she's always trying to master the
balancing act while also managing her occasional emotional roller coaster rides.
She's got a master's degree in journalism and currently works for the American
Dental Association while also pursuing a writing career and testing online
teaching positions. Her hubby is considered a branding guru and they are always
building the next big idea to get them closer to a life of freedom.
She's one year away from 30, so she's trying to make it count! Not that life ends at 30. :) When she's not blogging she's climbing three flights of stairs to her condo in Hyde Park with groceries in hand, reading and singing with Jada, cuddling with her hubby or feeding her need for constant organization. You can find her blogging on her personal site Mama Daisy.
Jeanie Chung lives in Chicago with her husband, daughter and two
elderly dogs. She is dipping her toe into the blogosphere, as it were,
by joining Chicago Moms Blog.
A recovering sportswriter, most recently for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1997-2002, Jeanie now writes for an education organization and tries to do the literary thing when she can. Her short stories have appeared in upstreet, Madison Review, Hunger Mountain and Timber Creek Review, and her author interviews have appeared in Writer's Chronicle and Rain Taxi online. She hates having her picture taken, but sometimes her leg and arm come out OK.xxx
Jen Khatchatrian: After leaving the fast lane as a celebrity flight attendant, Jen Khatchatrian embarked on an eco friendly adventure as The Eco Chic Organizer
proving that you don't need to sacrifice style when focusing on
conservation. True to recent label as an Eco Lifestyle Guru, Jen
founded Chicago Green Families,
an organization dedicated to education, networking, events and
philanthropy that connects people in all shades of green. Having lived
in downtown Chicago for 16 years, Jen shares her hidden treasures at Chicagonista
where she is Co-Editor and Partner. When she isn't writing or
organizing, you can find Jen museum hopping with her two sons (born
2003 and 2005).
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Karen Putz is a deaf mom to three deaf and hard of hearing kids. She's married to her college sweetheart who is also deaf. Karen grew up hard of hearing and became profoundly deaf after a fall while waterskiing on her bare feet. She has learned to turn her hearing aids off when the hubby grumbles about her housecleaning skills and close her eyes when the kids ask for money to go to the mall. Karen bounces back and forth from the western suburbs to Christie Lake in Michigan, where her parents reside. She drives a 20-year old boat and takes great delight in whipping the kids around the lake on inflated tubes.
Karen works in early intervention as a Deaf Mentor, providing support and information to families with deaf and hard of hearing children. She is a board member of Hands & Voices and runs the Illinois chapter. Karen tossed away her B.S. and M.A. counseling degrees in favor of her first love: writing. She can be found blogging away at Disaboom, Parenting Squad and her own two blogs: A Deaf Mom Shares Her World and Jobs, Careers and Callings.
Kim Moldofsky was born and bred in the Chicago area. She has been a factory worker
and a social worker; a dolphin trainer and a corporate trainer. Then
she took the plunge and became a potty trainer and stay-at-home mom to
her two little boys. Now that those boys are 9 and 11, her career is
finally out of the toilet.
Kim now works as a social media strategist helping companies understand and connect with online mom influencers. In addition to serving as a social media mom to companies like LeapFrog and ConAgra, she blogs about parenting, raising gifted children, and marketing to moms, along with fun stuff and occasional product reviews at Hormone-colored Days. Kim spent more than a year problogging at the BabyCenter’s top-ranked MOMformation blog and her wit and wisdom are sprinkled throughout the blogosphere. She can be reached at mom(at)moldofsky(dot)com.
Miss Lori began her artistic and philanthropic journey in Wisconsin
at the eager age of nine and has been going non-stop ever since. With a
focus to unite families together through her artistic contributions, in
Chicago in 2005 Miss Lori founded her company The CAMPUS Inc, now known as Miss Lori’s CAMPUS.
Miss Lori guides MLC with her innovative ideas creating programming,
entertainment, media and merchandise that ignite the imaginations of
curiously motivated children and their families everywhere.
Miss Lori launched onto the national stage when she was selected to be the first-ever live host for the PBS KIDS PRESCHOOL BLOCK after an extensive PBS nationwide talent search. She debuted on-air September 2006 and served as host for three fun-filled seasons. Children are Miss Lori's passion, but helping them lead healthier lives is her mission. Whether it is through her role as Ambassador for the AAPD's Healthy Smiles Healthy Children campaign, with her award winning CDs and DVDs, her live shows, or her day to day programs, Miss Lori is always encouraging people to get activated so that they can be healthy in mind and in body.
Miss Lori is a wonderful educator, recording artist, TV host, and business owner, but most importantly she is a Mom. Miss Lori has three children, and it was for her children that she started creating her magical programs. Miss Lori hopes that by doing so she has empowered her children, (and all children), to physicalize their imaginations, explore their sense of wonder and realize their potential, surpassing their wildest dreams. Miss Lori is calling out to entire communities to lead by example so that TOGETHER we can help raise an "Activated" generation.
Marcie Pickelsimer is the adoptive parent of two boys; one from
Russia and one from Guatemala. She is a former English teacher who
loves being a stay-at-home mom and a freelance writer. She lives in the
Chicago suburbs in a beautiful old bungalow with her family and the
obligatory black lab.
She also writes at Grown in My Heart and National Examiner-Adoption.
Mary Anne Mohanraj is the author of several books, including her
novel-in-stories, BODIES IN MOTION (HarperCollins 2005), an exploration
of sexuality, marriage, and Sri Lankan/American immigrant concerns.
Mohanraj has also written THE POET'S JOURNEY (a children's book,
2008), AQUA EROTICA (ed.), A TASTE OF SERENDIB (a Sri Lankan cookbook),
and several others. She is currently writing a travelogue/memoir
(ARBITRARY PASSIONS), a YA fantasy novel (RASATHI), and a mainstream
novel about a woman who was once a Tamil Tiger and is now a suburban
Chicago mom.
Mohanraj has received an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Prose, a
Neff Fellowship in English, a Steffenson-Canon Fellowship in the
Humanities, and the Scowcroft Prize for Fiction. She serves as
Executive Director of DesiLit (www.desilit.org), an organization that supports S. Asian and diaspora literature, and also directs the Speculative Literature Foundation (www.speclit.org).
Mohanraj lives in Chicago with her partner Kevin, their daughter Kavya
(born May 2007), and their dog, Ellie, where she teaches fiction and
Asian American literature at Northwestern University. She was born in
Colombo, Sri Lanka. http://www.maryannemohanraj.com
Meagan Francis
moved to Chicago last June from a small rural town in Michigan, and has
finally learned to parallel park. She's been a mother for nearly ten
years and is now the proud ringmaster of her own personal four-boy
circus (five if you count her husband, Jon). She writes for a living,
dispensing advice about pregnancy, birth, and motherhood for magazines
like Parenting, American Baby, Yoga Journal and Natural Health; and
writing about her parental philosophy and foibles in her syndicated
parenting column and blog posts. Meagan's also the author of two books:
The Everything Health Guide to Postpartum Care (Adams Media) and Table
for Eight: Raising a Large Family in a Small-Family World (Alpha
Books). Meagan looks forward to a day when she can indulge her love of
live theater and music more often, but finds that life with four
children is filled with its own kind of drama and noise. Find out more
about Meagan at her professional site.
Melanie is adjusting to life in Chicago after moving here not so
long ago. The excitement of life in Chicago makes up for the tedium of
keeping her three kids healthy, fed and dressed each day. Her student
husband has promised that life will get easier when he is done with
school, but she isn't holding her breath.
Even though she's never had a real job, she dreams of the day when she can be . . . something. For now, she spends her days reading, folding laundry, cooking, eating, cleaning up, wiping noses, changing diapers, and blogging at tales from the crib. You can also read her online journal at blissfully domestic.
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MJ Tam is a
writer, avid blogger, mad tech lover, self-proclaimed marketing diva
and a social media enthusiast. She established the successful MomViews.net, an informational family product site for smart parents, and is also the Founding Partner and Co-Editor of the online magazine Chicagonista.com, "Movers, Shakers and Baby Makers dishing on hidden Chicago treasures for the family".
MJ started writing in her personal blog; SugarMyBowl.com,when her first child was born in 2000 and now have 3 beautiful children that keeps her going. Her love of upstarting blogs, writing for sites and other blogs has multiplied in time. She also runs FilipinaMoms.com and TwitterStories.
Follow MJ on Twitter: www.twitter.com/mjtam
Sara is a former PR hack turned SAHM whose most important decision of
the day is what shoes to wear to the playground. Newly frugal, Sara's
trying to milk her husband and her closet for all the money she can.
And catch a paid writing gig here and there. She lives in Chicago with
her better half and their three-year-old son. When she's not
volunteering, carpooling, exercising, or watching convoluded serial
dramas, Sara can be found at her personal blog, Self-Made Mom.
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Serena Beltz is a native San Franciscan who moved to Chicago in 1996
en route to New York. Little did she know she'd still be in the Windy
City twelve years later with a native East Coaster for a husband, a
house in a suburban-esque subdivision on the North Side of Chicago and
two little boys. She attended the University of California at Berkeley
(Go Bears!) and has a background in financial services, IT and Early
Childhood Education.
She now spends her days as a she is a WAHM/SAHM who works in retail part-time and runs her own online business, Petit Tableau, which ties into her foodie blog at Petit Tableau--Making Healthy Food Fun. In her "free time" she also blogs at Multicultural Mama, enjoys entertaining, reading, sewing and "hanging out" on Facebook.
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Shannon Capanna was once a single girl who taught second grade and lived in Southern California with a cat. Now she lives in the Chicago suburbs with her husband, toddler son, and that very same cat. She works part-time as an editor for math textbooks, which does not make her as much of a math whiz as you might think.Shannon considers writing to be hobby, but she wouldn’t be at all upset if somebody offered to pay her for it. She also enjoys crossword puzzles, newspaper advice columns, and an hour of mindless TV every night. Shannon is a cat person, but hopes her interest in cats falls just shy of making her a crazy cat lady.
Sophia Leto
is a pen name. After loving her life in the city during her twenties
and for a brief moment in her thirties, she and her husband moved to
Skokie. They moved there for the schools, for the affordable housing,
and for the diversity. Sophia has two children and a dog, her "first
born." She has two advanced degrees, but right now she is putting them
to use (some would argue non-use) as a stay-at-home mom. In addition
to parenting, her passions include breastfeeding, organic food,
chocolate, baking and politics (not necessarily in that order). In
addition to Chicago Moms Blog, she has her own blog where she can be
"heard" ranting and raving about anything and everything, especially
her severe PMS called Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder ("PMDD") at www.moodymommy.wordpress.com. She loves comments and you can email her at sophialeto(at)yahoo(dot)com.........................................
Susan is a writer with curly hair who usually wishes she
had straight hair. Clearly a word person, not a number person, she would
appreciate any help she could get adding up the following word problem: 6
children, 2 step children, 1 set of premie twins, 4 boys, 2 girls, 1 special
needs child, 3 schools, 115-year-old house, 1 husband, 1 dog, 0 nannies, 0
housekeepers, 0 personal chefs, 24 measly hours in the day and not nearly enough
cash.
Susan believes there are Two Kinds of People in the world and proves it on her personal blog. She has written practically everything, from white papers on neurosurgery to picture book manuscripts, and longs for the day when you can find one of her books in the library with her name on the spine. She firmly believes that day is coming. In the meantime, she and her family live in Evanston and own a pet store in Lincolnwood. They are deeply grateful for crazy pet people who help pay their mortgage.
Tracey is mother of 3(9 yr, 5 yr and 2 yr), living in the suburbs of Chicago. Having lived here her entire life, one would think that the cities of Oaks, Parks, Forests, and Groves would make sense to her.... One would be mistaken. Thank God for Mapquest!!Knowing that family would be her first "career" the jobs before children were just that: jobs. The ability to quit working when her eldest son was 15 months old was the beginning of a crazy career as a SAHM. 2 kids, 8 years and 2 houses later, she is still in love with her job and family.
Her time is spent carting the kids to and from school, helping with homework, and getting ready for soccer seasons. (though it never seems to truly end...) Cooking and cleaning are not top priority, but hanging out with the family definitely is. She spends the majority of her personal "free" time blogging at JustAnotherMommyBlog.
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The management team:
PARTNER - SILICON VALLEY MOMS GROUP & CO-FOUNDER: Jill Asher is the co-founder of 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.
PARTNER (Co-Founder) - SILICON VALLEY MOMS GROUP &
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY MOM: Beth Blecherman (Beth B at svmoms.) 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...
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.
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