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By cori • Feb 11th, 2009 • Category: What's New?The Momoir Project blog was designed to keep all our students, and any writer moms for that matter, connected after the classes are over. Through the blog, you can continue to talk and write and share stories and inspiration with each other.
Each week, former online student, Karen Bannister, will post an entry, at the end of which will be a writing start. We hope many of you will use this opportunity to keep up with your writing and continue to record your experiences as a mom.
If you want to send in a comment, please use the comment box after each entry.
For those of you interested in using the writing starts and sending in your stories, please send them to us either as a comment in the box provided at the end of each blog entry.
Once we receive them, and we want to publish your story, we’ll let you know and then we might do a short edit before posting.
You can also email your writing starts to Cori at corih@telus.net
or to Karen at kabannister@cogeco.ca.
cori is an award-winning journalist who has worked in newspapers, magazines, television and radio, filing stories from across the world. Her writing (much of it personal essays on motherhood) has appeared in publications including The Globe and Mail, Canadian Geographic, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Independent, Maclean’s, Chatelaine, Flare and Today’s Parent. She is the editor of the recently published anthology, Between Interruptions: Thirty Women Tell the Truth about Motherhood.
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Cori asked us to share some mom blogs we like. Here are some that I follow.
Dirty little secret at : http://jerseygirl89.wordpress.com/
Funny, factual and she nicknamed her daughter Ironflower. Good going. I suspect that she has a reasonable if not a huge following… counting me.
http://www.dooce.com/
Like she needs any more promo. Witty, dry and well, a pretty good read. Worth following.
http://mom-101.blogspot.com/
Here is another winner. I can relate and she is interesting, and she doesn’t come across as trying to apologize, nor try to sell me anything. Besides she has named her kids wacky things according to her children, Thalia and Sage. They wanted name changes in time for pre-school. Sounds familiar to me. My own darling Finnleigh went by Nigel all last summer. No kidding, he corrected us on every lapse. So, my take is, she has her thumb on the pulse of life with kids and she tells us all with her unique take. What’s not to like.
http://momtothescreamingmasses.typepad.com/mom_to_the_screaming_mass/
Here’s a mom that puts me to shame… I’ll crawl back into my closet now. She has six loving children! Okay, it’s not a race, nor is it a contest, but I only have four somewhat content progeny. She clearly takes her kids and her blog seriously and the readers appreciate it… I do anyway. Check it out.
http://www.whiskeyinmysippycup.com/
On the darker side of humour, which appeals to me greatly, we have Whiskey in My Sippy Cup. Okay who hasn’t slipped a little something into a sippy cup to say, go to a game, walk on the beach, or heck just for fun? This blogger brings her not so secret cynicism into the blogosphere and onto my laptop. I like it much of the time, not all of the time. It’s not a how to, or how not to about family life, just a blog that is a little twisted. The world needs all kinds. I’ll keep following.