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Current Writing

	All Mir, all the time Woulda Coulda Shoulda is my personal blog, where I’ve been putting it all out there for over seven years. It’s about life, love, parenting, divorce, remarriage, autism, and bacon. Not necessarily in that order. Woulda Coulda Shoulda has received numerous accolades, including being a Yahoo! Pick of the Day and being featured in Parents Magazine.

	Having it all with less Want Not is my “bargain baby,” an idea born of the intersection between my incurable tightwad tendencies and a desire to help others who’ve struggled with money management. While Want Not features shopping deals most prominently, it also shares tips and tricks for living happily within your means and changing how you view your finances. Who says budgeting can’t be fun?

	Cornered Office I’m delighted to write Work It, Mom!‘s blog all about the life of a work-from-home freelancing mom. Sometimes life is just grand; sometimes I feel pulled in a hundred directions. Either way, I’m sharing ideas from the front lines—whether you’re a freelancer yourself or you’re thinking about becoming one, feel free to pull up a chair in my Cornered Office to get the dirt.

	We find it, you flaunt it I’m part of the savvy team over at Cool Mom Picks, helping you discover the greatest mom- and kid-related items you might not have known you need. I still think my status as a “cool mom” is debatable, but I’m willing to give it a shot. So far no one has demanded to see my credentials, so, um, don’t tell anyone what a geek I actually am. Thanks.

	Off Our Chests I’m excited to have joined the other women speaking their truths over at Off Our Chests, the site dedicated to sharing stories about what it means to grow up female and try to find your happy amidst societal pressures to look, speak, and even be a certain way to fit in. I only wish they’d been around when I was a teenager, though I comfort myself with the hope that my own daughter will find this sort of thing helpful as she navigates her own path.

	Daily Grommet One great find a day, with the background, a video about the item/service in question, and the details on why we thought it was awesome. Daily Grommet is finding the coolest things you never knew you needed, and making it easy for you to get your hands on them! I’m a contributing writer for the site, and even after all this time I regularly find myself saying, “Oh wow, where did you find that?”

	The community for women who blog I’m proud to be one of the editors for the BlogHer community, and have been part of the team since the site’s inception. I contribute to the site once a week on topics relevant to folks blogging about family life. Some of my BlogHer posts have been picked up by the Huffington Post, which turned out to be a nice little side benefit of belonging to a community of such sharp, brilliant women. I have also been involved with many of the BlogHer and BlogHer Business conferences.

Some Past Gigs

	Kitchen Table Reviews What’s better than one point of view? Three points of view, of course. My kids and I spent a blissful year and a half reading tons of books from Scholastic and then sharing the kinds of discussions we were having about our finds, already. Kitchen Table Reviews is the place to get the quick scoop on an assortment of kids’ books from three different perspectives.

	Smart Money & Finance For the very brief lifetime during its blogger initiative, I was a Featured Contributor over on Tree.com’s Money & Finance Channel. I focused on sharing tips to make your money go further without ever feeling dull or deprived. It’s my belief that anyone who says saving money isn’t fun is probably doing it wrong.

	Juno Baby Juno Baby is the award-winning series of DVDs and CDs designed to get kids excited about and engaged with music, for both fun and learning. When I was asked to join the team at their brand-new Juno Baby Blog to talk about being a mom, music, and other issues of interest to today’s parents, I jumped at the chance. For several months I shared our family’s adventures over there a couple times of week.

	Licensing industry news and information For over three years I was the Toy Box Mommy at the blog associated with Ty’s Toy Box. For their blog I offered dynamic, relevant content on children’s media, product licensing, and other items of interest to licensors and Ty’s customers. I also coordinated blogger outreach and giveaways with/for them. My standard joke is that I was the Toy Box Mommy before it was cool to have a corporate blog—Ty’s was an early believer in the power of blogs, and we were able to do a lot of neat things there before “everyone” was doing it.

	Iddy Biddy Blog Working with the fine ladies behind the Idbids, I helped them to create and run the Iddy Biddy Blog during its first year, to share ideas about how iddy biddy steps can make a biggy big difference when it comes to taking care of our planet. Whether we were talking about new innovations in recycling or confessing our not-so-green habits, the Iddy Biddy Blog was a place where parents could learn more about helping our kids be more environmentally conscious (without being preachy).

	Alpha Mom Guide to Everything I contributed several pieces to the Alpha Mom Guide to Everything, because there’s nothing I like more than being able to distill any given life experience down to five simple survival steps. No, really. You mean you don’t?

	Milk does a body good In association with the fine folks who run 3aday.org, I wrote a series of articles about how my family nourishes our morning with the help of delicious dairy products. As I often refer to our abode as the House of Cheese, this was a very easy (and yummy) assignment.