8 Days Left
What I want to remember about today: I want to remember that the twins haven’t adjusted to the time change yet. They pitter-pattered into the room and snuggled with us. Michael stroked my forehead. I...
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Last year we visited Grandma for the holidays. This is what I love about Grandma’s house. The day we arrived she said, “Nothing is breakable in this house that will be missed.” Which is good because...
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I’ve written about this before: Pat Schneider’s Artist and Writer’s Method and the workshop facilitated by Cary Tennis. I go on Thursday nights. A prompt is given. We write for twenty minutes or so....
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Only three days left of the Indiegogo campaign to help fund our Write On, Mamas anthology! “This is me in the rain and I’m smiling,” my five-year-old says about the stick figure with blue circles for...
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I love my Mamas! Sunday, November 11th was our monthly Scribbles & Sips event at the O’Hanlon Center for the Arts. We had a good group—about 16 Mamas turned out to hear Rachel Sarah discuss the...
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This is it. The Write On, Mamas Indiegogo campaign ends tonight at midnight. Which means that this is the last day of the Blog-off. I’ve blogged for each of the 35 days of the campaign and reposted on...
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G is for Garbage Truck
Photography by Mary Allison Tierney I never thought about garbage trucks before I had boys.I never stopped to admire how the green trucks really do look like mechanical dinosaurs. My heart never jumped...
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What I Want To Remember
We provided a writing prompt to our members recently and received interesting and varied responses. We’re sharing a few on our blog – here’s the fourth and final one. Keep in mind these are quick...
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Interview interrupted
Kate Hopper’s memoir Ready for Air: A Journey Through Premature Motherhood came out October 3rd. Janine Kovac sat down to interview Kate for Literary Mama’s Profiles section, the way mamas do...
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Shout out to Indiegogo Campaign Donor Andrea Torres
Last year when we had our Indiegogo campaign, I wrote “Generous Souls” posts for each person I knew who donated. Here’s the post I wrote to thank Andrea Torres, my first writing partner from 7th...
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Write the best essay you can write
When I saw the cover photo on the Lit Camp website last year—the one with six lawn chairs overlooking green countryside—I started salivating. Four days in wine country. Stellar faculty. Rustic cabins....
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A is for Anthology
Welcome to the Write On Mamas. We are a writing group based in the San Francisco North Bay area. We will have 25 Mamas and one Papa writing on a different letter of the alphabet during the A-Z Blog...
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Editing Matters
I thought that overseeing my writing group’s anthology as a self-published book would interfere with my own writing. Instead it made me a stronger writer. Two years ago I proposed to our group the...
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Book Review: Kate Hopper
Book Review by Janine Kovac: Ready For Air: A Journey through Premature Motherhood by Kate HopperThe memoir Ready For Air: A Journey through Premature Motherhood, by Minneapolis-based author and...
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To Dance!
Janine Kovac, our fantastic program coordinator, has a wonderful piece airing on KQED Perspectives this week. To listen to it, click here. Or you can just read it below:So by the time I turned 19 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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