 Doing It Differently, by Ona Gritz. " Ethan was leaving for two weeks of summer camp and the way I saw it, it would be relatively easy for us. As a family of divorce, we're often apart on weekends. Now, with school out, he sometimes has impromptu overnights at his dad's during the week too. Or he'll call me at work to announce that he's sleeping at a friend's. Yup, we're used to being away from each other. Ethan loves his independence and I love mine. Two weeks? They'd go by quickly."
 Great Green Room, by Stephanie Hunt. "It's hard to fathom the extent to which computers and technology will shape my children's education. My kids think I'm Neanderthal woman when I ask for their help in downloading software. They laugh when I tell them that I learned my ABCs without IBMs...We didn't have science software; we made terrariums: tiny rainforests in pickle jars. A little sand, a layer of black dirt topped with moss and a tiny fern. Maybe a twig or two for a beetle to crawl on. Spritz some water, seal it tight and this mini-biosphere was good to go. Sure, we had websites, the kind with hairy arachnids hanging out."
 Life in the Sandwich, by Susan Ito. "I dreaded this last month, felt that our connection would just snap irrevocably, and she would drift away into her life like a bear cub on an ice floe."
 Me and My House, by Elrena Evans. "I can't answer. It is too real, too urgent: my child being baptized, being brought into the family of Christ, while another one of God's children lies on the floor only feet away from me, separated only by a thin wall, by the short span of a human lifetime. I hold my son and cry."
 Red Diaper Dharma, by Ericka Lutz. "I know people who seem to morph: one year she's a radical lesbian scorning the system and five years later she's an upper-middle class doctor's wife driving carpool; one year he's the CFO of a pharmaceutical startup and five years later he's grown a shaggy beard and lives in an old-growth Redwood tree in Humboldt County. I don't usually think of myself as so mutable, but I've recently morphed into a Popular Girl; I just beat a thousand other authors for the Grand Prize in an Internet popularity contest."
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12-Step Mama by Anonymous
Children's Lit Book Group by Libby Gruner
Chronic Mama by Guest Columnists
Down Will Come Baby by Rebecca Kaminsky
Mama at the Movies by Caroline Grant
Mama's Boy by Jessica Berger Gross
Multi-Culti Mami by Violeta Garcia-Mendoza
Special Needs Mama by Vicki Forman
Zen and the Art of Child Maintenance by Shari M. Strong