Co-sponsored by the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, on Thursday, May 9th, 2013 at 7 p.m. Back Pages Books in Waltham will be hosting the official East Coast Launch of my book, The Business of Baby (with slides and refreshments). Florence George Graves, the investigative journalist who founded the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism and was responsible for breaking the story…
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Author Support: 7 Ways to Help a Newly Published Author
Do you have a friend who just wrote a book? Have you written a book yourself? Are you looking for author support? What are the best ways to support a new author? Whether you’re an author, you know one, or you want to be one, every author needs author support. Always wanted to write a book but were afraid to…
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The Great Mother’s Day Giveaway
Not to be a curmudgeon, but I don’t really like Mother’s Day. I like it when the kids bustle around to make me breakfast in bed but these days I’m up hours before two of our four and I inevitably end up cleaning the kitchen. I feel like there’s too much pressure to be happy. My 13-year-old was aghast that…
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How to Have a Positive Pregnancy: 6 Moms Share Their Secrets
A positive pregnancy experience is what we every pregnant woman wants. Last week I was working on a positive pregnancy article for Babble.com. It was so much fun to research and write that I wasn’t ready to let the topic go once I submitted it to my editor. So I asked some mama friends to share their more secrets about how to have…
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Our Little Boy’s Birth Story by Marisa Soboleski
I love reading a good birth story, don’t you? Marisa and I met at a playgroup in Ashland, Oregon when my youngest daughter and her oldest daughter were both babies. Her daughter’s name is Sierra, mine is Leone. Sierra Leone. No wonder they took an instant liking to each other. Marisa Soboleski has generously agreed to share the birth story of her…
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The Media Denigrates Moms By Pitting Women Against Women
It’s hard to understand why our media denigrates moms. Anyone else tired of reading articles where women denigrate each other, name call, sling mud, and pit women against women? Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Today.com reported this morning that women who have children, according to their “online, unscientific” poll, hate their postpartum bodies. If you click on the article—though I…
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