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This Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 8, I’ll be taking part in the New York City MAMAPALOOZA, doing a reading at the Bowery Poetry Club along with Ayun Halliday and Catherine Newman. (Info: 3 to 6 p.m., 308 Bowery, NYC 212-614-0505, $5 door). Mamapalooza was founded four years ago by Joy Rose of the band Housewives […]

I’m off to Portland and Seattle for Mother Talk events, and I’m looking forward to meeting some writers I’ve only encountered virtually or telephonically thus far, and to speaking with the groups we’ll be meeting over the next five days. In the meantime, if you haven’t already heard the news, an association of women authors […]

We’re running an interview with author Jennifer Lauck in which she talks about writing and motherhood and writing about motherhood: Before I wrote Show Me the Way, an agent asked, “Are you going to be a serious writer or are you going to disappear into the abyss of motherhood?” I said I was going to […]

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 […]

Everyone knows about the writerly obsession of checking your Amazon ranking on an hourly basis. Luckily, I don’t have to go to the trouble of doing that anymore — of actually opening up my browser and checking to see what my Amazon rank is — because a kind and enabling friend built me a Konfabulator […]

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 […]

Just got word that Stephany went into labor on Tuesday morning: Luke David was born yesterday, a month before his official due date, at 9:02 a.m., and weighed in at 4 pounds 13 ounces. Congratulations to the proud parents! And Stephany — welcome to mother land!

More on writing frankly about one’s children: I always, always, always look forward to Catherine Newman’s weekly column about life with Birdy, her two-year-old daughter, and her five-year-old son Ben. Bringing Up Ben & Birdy is published every Monday on the commercial site ParentCenter and in my opinion it’s the very best feature that site […]

There’s been a lot of negative buzz online lately about Ayelet Waldman’s new column on Salon, which she recently started after giving up posting on her addictively readable parenting blog, Bad Mother. I have to admit that at times I’ve been surprised, even taken aback, by just how much Waldman reveals but it’s… interesting to […]

Jennifer Niesslein and Stephanie Wilkinson, the editors of Brain, Child magazine, wonder why publishers seem to be backing off literary offerings by, for, and about mothers — when sixty-eight percent of books are purchased by women. At one point though — say, around 2003 — around we started getting discouraging notes from writers we know. […]

This story is more than a week old but I’ve still chosen to link it now because it’s of particular interest to women who write about mothering. The Guardian recently took British writers Ali Smith and Toby Litt to task for characterizing the work of many women writers as “dull, depressed and domestic” in their […]