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Darlena Cunha is a mother of twins, journalist, novelist, editor, and owner of parentwin. She has written for dozens of publications including the The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Thought Catalog, Twins Magazine, McSweeneys and more.Contributors:
Amber
After more than 30 years of crafty aspirations and failures, Amber turned on her sewing machine in March of 2012 and discovered the creative outlet she'd been searching for. A largely self-taught sewist, she enjoys making adult garments and costumes, and has also dabbled in children's clothing and other sewn crafts. When she isn't sewing, Amber works full time as an accountant. She lives in the Atlanta area with her husband, two daughters, and their assorted pets. You can find her sewing adventures here: missparayim.com
Anne Theriault
Lives in Toronto with her husband and young son. She spends her days teaching yoga, reading in cafés, and trying to figure out how to negotiate in toddler-ese. She regularly blogs about books, nostalgia and feminism at http://bellejar.ca/.
Ani
Ani is a Jill of all trades, part time bartender, full time wife and mother of 3 small female-at-birth humans. The eldest of the spawn is precariously balanced on the verge of tweenage wonder, while the youngest of which is in full blown toddler chaos mode, and the middle is likely to take over the world while the rest of us aren't watching. Ani spends her days idle-ly clicking "Like" and "Share" on inflammatory facebook posts and generally ignoring the mountain of laundry that has taken over her basement. Sometimes you can find her in local coffee shops drinking unhealthy amounts of green tea while arguing over the pages of her latest attempt at writing. Red wine, thigh high socks, yoga and run on sentence fragments round out her less than compact list of interests.
Bridget Frazier
A twenty-something young woman who, over the years, has come to realize that hopes and dreams don't always coincide with reality. Take a journey through what it means to accept what life has given you, to be happy with the blessing bestowed, all while mourning the loss of dreams once passed.
Elizabeth Andrea Hawksworth
Elizabeth Andrea Hawksworth is a Canadian poet and short story writer. She began writing short stories at the age of five and started writing poetry at the age of 12. A professional writer and nanny, she has been published both online and in print. Her books," Break for Beauty" and "Lake Effect: Voices of Toronto's History", can be found on Amazon.
She resides in Toronto with her two cats, Athena and Fili, and spends her days in love with the beauty of living in Canada’s largest city.
You can find more of her writing at http://www.elizabethahawksworth.com.
Emilie Blanton
Emilie is a high school English teacher with two children. She holds a Bachelors in English and a Masters in Secondary Education. After completing student teaching at an urban, Persistently Low Achieving (PLA) school, she was placed at another PLA school in the same school district. Her Ask a Teacher column can also be found over at Teaching Ain't for Heroes.
Jackie Monck
Things are equilibrating. She's a happily single mother to a beautiful pixie girl and a snuggly monkey monster boy.
She's also bi-queer, pro-choice, crunchy, and liberal. I've got a sarcasm problem, as well. (The problem being that she often comes up with her sarcastic replies a second too late, and doesn't get to use them out loud as a result. =P)
She writes a blog and fiction, and she edits for a small publishing house for a living. She's also absolutely awesome. Those who know her can confirm that. ;) Find her at http://accidentallymommy.blogspot.com/
James Wu
James is a mailman who's working in Boston for eight years now, but before that he was in retail for far too long, selling mostly books and comics. He met a lot of interesting people in that time, however, so it wasn't entirely a waste. He now shoots magnificent photos of stairwells in Boston and you can see them here: http://bostonmailman.tumblr.com
Jerry Kennedy
Jerry Kennedy is (in no particular order) a fiancee, stepdad, writer, actor, director, singer, and web dude living in The Greatest City In the World, Sacramento, CA. His hobbies include reading, skateboarding, falling off his skateboard, drinking, karaoke (especially after drinking), and making love at midnight in the dunes on the cape. You'll find his irregular ramblings about life, the universe, and everything at http://jerrykennedy.com
James Wu
James is a mailman who's working in Boston for eight years now, but before that he was in retail for far too long, selling mostly books and comics. He met a lot of interesting people in that time, however, so it wasn't entirely a waste. He now shoots magnificent photos of stairwells in Boston and you can see them here: http://bostonmailman.tumblr.com
Jerry Kennedy
Jerry Kennedy is (in no particular order) a fiancee, stepdad, writer, actor, director, singer, and web dude living in The Greatest City In the World, Sacramento, CA. His hobbies include reading, skateboarding, falling off his skateboard, drinking, karaoke (especially after drinking), and making love at midnight in the dunes on the cape. You'll find his irregular ramblings about life, the universe, and everything at http://jerrykennedy.com
Joella
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Kristen Duvall
Sarah Fountains
An accountant living in the UK, who's engaged to an accountant living in California. Currently she lodges with/housesits for/nannys for/freeloads from close friends with two extremely boisterous sons. She's been reading parenting advice in books and on the internet as a hobby since she was sixteen, and cares particularly about adoption issues; she's probably also the only voice in the feminist crowd insisting that sexism goes both ways in different circumstances. She loves dancing and sewing, fails at one but not the other, and struggles continually with things that other people refer to as "common sense." Her lifetime ambition is to be organised enough to justify baskets in the refrigerator, and has yet to meet someone who doesn't laugh at it. Most days, though, she still has laundry on the floor. Read about her international adventures at: http://
M. Kate Allen
MaryAnne
Rhyannon
Rhy is an accidental crime fighter, an amateur renovator, a part time patient advocate and a full time wife and mother. She writes when she runs out of knitting projects and has been parenting long enough to know there is more than one right way to be a great mom. She’s commutes between tree hugging Seattle and pro nuke Eastern Washington and thinks that’s a pretty good description of her political views. She has been wrong… more than once. Her kids are 29, 19, 15, 5 and is expecting twins via egg donation and gestational surrogacy. Find the story of her journey at http://welcomingaheartbeat.blogspot.com.
A tea drinking, picture painting, craft making, hula-hooping, earth loving, natural parenting mama of two. (who wishes she spent more time practicing yoga)
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Sarah is a writer, wife, mother, and programmer on the verge of a midlife crisis. Or maybe mid-midlife crisis. She has been writing the second draft of her novel for almost a year and a half, and is sure it'll be finished any decade now. Hobbies include reading, baking, and being a weird recluse. You can find her at A Place That Does Not Exist.
Sarah Tormey
Has been cooking meals for her family since she was 12 years old, using recipes passed down from her mother and grandmothers, as well as coming up with her own. Now a stay at home mom with two boys, she loves nothing more than to cook and share her 2+ decades worth of acquired meals and tips, both from her family and her husband's. If she could only get her picky 4 year old to try her cooking, her life would be complete. Find her at http://theanswerisgarlic.blogspot.com
A middle-aged mom who cleans houses in order to pay for her education habit. She is currently single and available for dates or tributes. Chocolate, flowers or cruise runs are all happily accepted. While she writes our popular Ask a Cleaning Lady column, she writes about all topics with sensitive wit on smibbo.org
Guest Posters:
Aubrey Harmon
Donnelle Belanger-Taylor
Emma Wade
Jenny Hill
Jessica Nicholas
Jill Redding
Julie
Kathi Bourke
Kimberly Wright
Lilly Andersen
Mike Provencher
Monika Costa
Polly
Stacie
The Green Bird
Tori
Samantha Williams
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Sarah Evans
Has been cooking meals for her family since she was 12 years old, using recipes passed down from her mother and grandmothers, as well as coming up with her own. Now a stay at home mom with two boys, she loves nothing more than to cook and share her 2+ decades worth of acquired meals and tips, both from her family and her husband's. If she could only get her picky 4 year old to try her cooking, her life would be complete. Find her at http://theanswerisgarlic.blogspot.com
Smibbo
Guest Posters:
Aubrey Harmon
Donnelle Belanger-Taylor
Emma Wade
Jenny Hill
Jessica Nicholas
Jill Redding
Julie
Kathi Bourke
Kimberly Wright
Lilly Andersen
Mike Provencher
Monika Costa
Polly
Stacie
The Green Bird
Tori