Shout out to Indiegogo Campaign Donor Andrea Torres
Last year when we had our Indiegogo campaign, I wrote “Generous Souls” posts for each person I knew who donated. Here’s the post I wrote to thank Andrea Torres, my first writing partner from 7th...
View ArticleThe Best of the Best 2013 - T is for Thanks
In a fit of utter madness, the Write On Mamas decided to enter the A-Z Blog Challenge once again in April. This is when you post on a different letter of the alphabet on each day of April. We managed...
View ArticleZ is for Zucchini Bread
Photography by Mary Allison Tierney When I agreed to help edit the Mamas Write anthology I had no idea how much I’d start to crave those Friday morning meetings at Bittersweet Café in Oakland. I’d...
View ArticleEditing Matters
I thought that overseeing my writing group’s anthology as a self-published book would interfere with my own writing. Instead it made me a stronger writer. Two years ago I proposed to our group the...
View ArticleSome things I learned from self-publishing
I had no idea when we started the Write On Mamas just over two years ago that it would be so much fun, that our members would be so supportive and that we would actually publish a book: Mamas Write....
View ArticleRight on Mamas, Write On!
Back in the Saddle; in front of the keyboard About eight years ago I joined a community of women writers who were mothers, like me. I had heard some members of the group read their work in San...
View ArticleBook Review: Kate Hopper
Book Review by Janine Kovac: Ready For Air: A Journey through Premature Motherhood by Kate Hopper The memoir Ready For Air: A Journey through Premature Motherhood, by Minneapolis-based author and...
View ArticleÁine
“Love you,” Áine would say whenever it was time to part ways, either at gymnastics class when our daughters finished practicing or after one of our impromptu dinners at her house or mine. The words...
View ArticleDana's Closet
Dana’s husband Dave and her seventeen-year-old daughter Torey had invited a group of Dana’s friends, mostly other moms, to choose what we wanted from her closet. Lovely, sweet, fashion-loving Dana had...
View ArticleUp In The Air
Like many recent college graduates, I spent the summer of 1977 moping in my parents’ basement. My college roommate, Sharon, was doing the same, 3,000 miles away in Berkeley. We had no jobs and no...
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