BlogRhet: Contributing Writers

Joy Palmer
Gingajoy: http://gingajoy.blogspot.com/
Co-founder of BlogRhet. I am a blogger, an academic, and a mother (not necessarily in that order). In my professional life, I work as Projects Director for a digital humanities research center at Michigan State. Other times you can find me chasing my 4 year old or strolling around with a baby in my bjorn. My personal blog started as a hobby, a place to experiment with writing and tell stories. As I became more en mired in the process and the community, I realized I wanted to stand back and talk about what I was learning for an audience also interested in these meta-matters, hence BlogRhet.

Catherine Connors
Her Bad Mother: http://badladies.blogspot.com/.
(also: http://www.herbadmother.blogspot.com/; http://www.mommyblogstoronto.com/ )
Co-founder of BlogRhet. Practicing mother, recovering academic. Have given up trying to be a philosopher, and will now settle for queen.

Karen Andrews
Miscellaneous Mum: http://miscmum.com/
Who am I? An Australian freelance writer who often needs to compose little blurbs about herself and each time spends as long on it as the piece of work itself (this included!)

Mimi
Part mom, part prof, all tired. I am an English professor who writes about blogs and digital culture by day, and writes and reads blogs by night. Oh, and all that taking care of baby and being a wife and finding time for reading the paper and such on the side.

Bon
Crib Chronicles: http://cribchronicles.com/
My own ideas only really start to take on any shape when I spell them out, mark them down...and meta-conversations are my idea of a high time. I'm an erstwhile educator/Ph.D student currently straddling the stay-at-home/jobsearch conundrum with a sweet thirteen-month old in one arm and bitterchocolate - lots of it - in the other. Balance is important, in everything.

Mary G.
Them's my sentiments: http://themsmysentiments.blogspot.com/
I volunteered for this endeavour because, like the elephant's child, I have an insatiable curiosity...about people, about what they think, about what they say. And I love to write. Aside from that, I have few qualifications: I'm a 65 year old grandma, former teacher, graphics artist and life long student who's in awe of the company she's keeping.

Tere
A Mom, A Blog, And the Life In Between: http://tere-tere.blogspot.com/
I'm mother to Max, who rocks. I'm also a public relations professional/writer who lives in Miami, FL. Born here to Cuban parents, forever floating between two cultures; a (lapsed) Catholic married to an American Jew - clearly, I'm just begging for identity issues. I'm many things, but never boring or predictable.

Slouching Mom
Slouching Past 40: http://www.slouchingmom.com/
Slouching Mom is a freelance writer and SAHM to two sons, Ben and Jack. She is currently suffering from a bit of culture shock, having grown up in New York City but now living (happily!) in a town of 100,000, albeit one still in the Mid-Atlantic region. She is an avid photographer and a diehard liberal who would be thrilled if Barack Obama became our next president. Slouching Mom turned 40 this year and blogs at Slouching Past 40 as a way to come to terms with this sad but inevitable fact. Oh, and she earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology back in 1997. The PhD has become something of an afterthought. At least for now.

Bobita
Blooming Yaya: http://www.bloomingyaya.blogspot.com/
Mother to three little ones (yes, three), torn between two professional paths (professor and PhD student), wife to one irreverent man (if he continues to play his cards right), and comparable to...none. Heh.

Nicola
Just Making it Up: http://www.justmakingitup.worldpress.com
First, I am mom to three children, ages 11, 8 and 5. Second, I am a writer and journalist. The two were bound to intersect. For a while, I wrote a parenting column for the newspaper, which was tons of fun, and when it ended I missed that sort of writing - the thinking about motherhood, the analysis. Motherhood is frequently so darn boring. And so I began to blog and read other blogs. (There are a lot of thinking mamas out there, and they aren't just thinking about being mamas.) I'm also Canadian, Jewish and a knitter.

Jennifer Magnuson
Get in the Car!: http://www.lottakids.blogspot.com/
Jennifer Magnuson is a full-time parent to a brood of four, and has been married since the dawn of time. Since first freelancing for a small feminist print publication two years ago, she is a writer counting online and print publications, as well as her blog, as her venues. She attended the University of Oregon and Portland State University and holds a B.A. in Sociology, as well as extensive postgraduate training in the field of domestic violence and sexual assault. It doesn't come in handy much these days, other than mediating preteen disputes involving Lindsay Lohan CDs.