You know what you need when life's gone to pot? Music. And I've been finding the kind of joy that you have to hum out loud all over the place lately. So, without further ado.... I would like to thank:...
Oh, Elizabeth. I hope that you have the support of those around you so that you can tap into your strength and courage for this - I know that you have those in you, and that it doesn't make things any easier in the end. Many, many good thoughts going your way.
2.5 years ago, I got lost coming home from the bank. The bank? It's less than a mile from my house. The experience? Scared the shit out of me. Headaches that had been a growing annoyance became coupled with a...
Wed., October 8, 7:30pm--PORTLAND, OR--Powell's, 1005 W. Burnside *Amy Richards, author of Opting In: Having a Child without Losing Yourself and Jennifer Baumgardner, author of Abortion & Life. *Cosponsored by Literary Mama and Bitch Magazine. In 2004, Jennifer Baumgardner created...
LM's Bare Breasted Mama Columnist, Gail Baker, will be will be in San Francisco next week doing a few readings from her new book, Cancer Is A Bitch. You can also catch her on KGO TV's "View from the Bay"...
Apronstrings: A new magazine in production for mothers in Ireland. Just well-written, thought-provoking pieces, portraying with honesty what it is to be a mother - the highs and lows and the in-betweens. Personal essays to be of length 800--4,000 words....
The Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) and the Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center are pleased to host a Day Symposium @ Brandeis University, Boston, MASS February 27, 2009 The Maternal Wall in Academe: Academic Mothers and Strategies of Resistance...
Columnist Elrena Evans will read from her anthology Mama, PhD: Women Write about Motherhood and Academic Life (co-edited with Senior Editor Caroline Grant) at 1:00 on October 11th at Barnes & Noble in Valley Forge, PA. Elrena will be joined...
Please join us... A New Cadence Poetry Series Presents: Sandra Lim, Elline Lipkin & Lauren Eggert-Crowe reading from their works Sunday, September 28th Felix Kulpa Gallery 107 Elm Street(behind Streetlight Records) Santa Cruz, CA 95060 : 7:00pm Admission is free...
Join past and present Literary Mama editors and columnists at San Francisco's fabulous Lit Crawl. Caroline Grant (Mama at the Movies), Rebecca Kaminsky (Down Will Come Baby), Ericka Lutz (Red Diaper Dharma), and Sophia Raday (Mommy Athens, Daddy Sparta) will...
This website's aim is to gather stories about what we have learned from our mothers, how we feel about it, and how it affects the way we live our lives. These stories will be collected into a book, tentatively titled...
Have you ever wondered how other women survived their 40s? The new anthology, Knowing Pains, is an honest, humorous, thoughtful and diverse collection of essays by real women who aren't afraid to tell their age and tell it like it...
When the folks at Parent Bloggers Network offered me a chance to review James Lehman’s Total Transformation Program I leapt at the chance. I had heard his 30-minute infomercial on the radio and thought it sounded interesting.
The Total Transformation® Program was created by behavioral therapist James Lehman to offer parents practical, real world solutions for children who are defiant, disrespectful, who lie and curse at their parents, act out in school, and so on.
My kids are pretty good kids. In fact, Nathan and Lucie are fairly well behaved for ...
Seeking Children's Drawings for Publication: Gia Giasullo, who designed the Single Mom Seeking book cover for Seal Press, is working on a book project, and this is a call for submissions for children's drawings. I have a PDF that I...
Literary Reflections is pleased to present our featured writing prompt response from August. We asked "What literary inheritances have you received from your family and/or loved ones? What might you pass on to the next generation?" Jenny Rich wrote: From...
Now that the kids are at school all day, I like to watch movies while I take a break from the computer and do household chores like folding laundry. But this week I’ve been sick, too, so it’s nice to have a video to watch instead of re-watching Ice Road Truckers or The Real Housewives for the millionth time.
I’ve been enjoying The Best of Comedy Central Presents II that Click-comm.com sent me to review. Paramount Home Entertainment and Comedy Central just released this very funny video. This is something that you want to watch when the kids are ...
Gail Konop Baker Cancer Is a Bitch Or, Id Rather Be Having a Midlife Crisis) Tuesday, September 30th 7:30PM Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park www.keplers.com Based on her popular Literary Mama column, the authors raw, moving account...
is a charity anthology chronicling real-life experiences of infertility, miscarriage, stillbirth and related issues. Please share your story: droll or indifferent, angry or melancholy, we want to hear about every aspect of this often hidden situation. Anonymity assured if requested....
Former LM columnists Jennifer Eyre White (Degrees of Freedom) and Rachel Sarah (Single Mom Seeking) will be reading, along with Marilee Stark and Cynthia Borris,from A Cup of Comfort for Single Mothers at Book Passage in Corte Madera, Sunday, September...
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