Dawn Friedman

Hi all– I wanted to announce the (second) launch of Open Adoption Support, a social networking site and resource site for families and individuals interested in or living open adoptions. The site is for all triad members including those who are in closed adoptions but support openess, those who are in reunion, and those whose […]

Fellow LM editor Caroline Grant sent me a link to this recent NYT article about Cathy Orenstein teaching women to write op-eds. My favorite quote? “I try to convey the idea that there is a responsibility,” she said. “Op-ed pages are so enormously powerful. It’s one of the few places open to the public. Where […]

Ok folks, my iBook gave up the ghost just before the holidays and despite expert assistance, I can’t move my mail over to my shiny new MacBook. This means that submissions I’ve received for Op Ed (including accepted pieces) are (in the immortal words of the Violent Femmes) gone, daddy, gone. If you’ve submitted an […]

Last weekend I attended the 2006 Nieman Narrative Conference. There were a lot of great workshops by a lot of thrilling presenters but one of the most inspiring was given by Connie Schultz. Ms. Schultz is a mom, a wife (to newly elected senator Sherrod Brown) and a Pulitzer-prize winning writer. Her op-eds appear in […]

I’m not going to the writing conference I was thinking about in the spring. I’m not sure about this. It’s expensive but I was hoping the investment would be worth it to get me all inspired and stuff. But then I was thinking that what with buying a new house and all the homeschooling activities […]

I promised Andi I would be very helpful with this blog and then suddenly my work blew up and I am actually having to do something to earn my living. So I am waiting for my childcare situation to go from theoretical to practical (my little sister will be coming over and helping out) and […]

Oprah has a whole page of writers talking about balancing writing and motherhood. It’s a hobby of mine — seeing how other writing women somehow manage to product readable work between diaper changes, sandwich making, and carpooling. No majorly new insights here (was hoping someone had a magical tip guaranteed to make it all swing […]