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F is for Freaky
Photography by Mary Allison Tierney When I co-founded the Write On Mamas with a small group of fellow friends and writers, I didn’t tell them that I was not like them, that I had not grown up with a...
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N is for Nerd
Photography by Mary Allison Tierney Falling in love was always easy for me. It started at age 6. Maybe I was younger than most when it happened, but when I fell, it was head over heels, bright as the...
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P is for Penis
Photography by Mary Allison Tierney “Boys are better than girls because they have penises,” my four-year-old-son Bryce announced during breakfast one morning. Glaring at his two- year-old-sister, he...
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T is for Temper
Photography by Mary Allison Tierney I was eavesdropping at the bus stop, on kids waiting to go to elementary school: “Max got a stop. He got like so mad, coz coz Sebastian flushed his hat,” says the...
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Dedication
Sandra Boynton’s book, Chocolate: The Consuming Passion, starts like this: There are many without whom this book would have been impossible. There are many others without whom it would have been a...
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A Case Study in Procrastination
Meghen Kurtzig, who manages the humble Finances of Write On Mamas, recently took a trip to Japan and sat down to write about her travels. Here’s what she wrote instead. Thirty-seven-year-old female,...
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Nest
There are signs of new life in the empty nest. For one thing, Ally has blown back in for the summer from a year teaching abroad in Spain. We don’t see much of her, but we can follow the debris trail...
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Reporting for Duty
When my husband and I exchanged vows, I was smart enough to omit, “I promise to get you a dog.”I am a cat person. I love the moody, genius-friend way they stand in a corner staring at you. They love...
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Speeding: California vs England
I passed my driving test first time at 17 and, in a slightly cocky manner, have always considered myself a damn good driver. I am probably delusional, but back up this assumption with the fact that I...
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Phone Home
Phone home. ET instinctively knew how to relieve stress. Now research confirms that if you reach out and touch someone, preferably Mom, you’ll feel better. According to a recent study, girls aged 7-12...
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Getting Out the Vote
My husband and I are political junkies—or at least we were until we had to stop following the news to preserve our mental health. Still, we consider voting a duty, not a privilege. So when our eldest...
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Not So Sugar Coated Halloween
Thank you Ian. Your fishnets, platform heels and pearls made me feel like a teenager again. I needed an escape from my sugar coated Halloweens of the last seven years. My children have just recently...
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The Anti-Amazon Wish List Rant
With Black Friday approaching, there is a familiar sense of panic. One, I am always so busy with work this time of year that Christmas gift shopping is the last thing on my mind. Two, I am the worst...
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Black Friday Lessons
It all started in 1996 with a 7-inch ceramic plate that read “Cookies for Santa” along the rim. My older sister Padrin had been the one to spot the advertisement for it in the Thanksgiving newspaper...
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Out with the Old, In with the . . . ?
Before the fresh start to the New Year started going a bit stale, I got a jump on things during the lull between Christmas and January 1. With no more presents to wrap, holiday feasts to prepare, and...
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The Writing Process of a Harried Mother
We are delighted to welcome Tarja Settles to Write On Mamas, who is the sister of Keija Parssinen - our speaker on Sunday (see our Events page for more details). A while back, the Wall Street Journal...
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Of Soap and Tears
It was a tough summer for my parents. At the tender age of eight, I had picked up some colorful vocabulary at day camp. I routinely wowed them in the kitchen with four-letter epithets, only to have my...
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Cooking with Petite
We are delighted to welcome a previous member of Write On Mamas, Tamar McLachlan, who moved to live in Italy and now runs luxury stays in the beautiful countryside in Piemonte as well as writing and...
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Writing Time
I got lost driving to O’Hanlon for the April Write In. Not too lost. But I relaxed into the wrong lane coming from the East Bay and before I knew it, I was headed to Sacramento instead of toward the...
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