Maline is the woman behind Nooma Consulting, which helps adoptive parents better understand their children, giving them a perspective on adoption that is not sold in the media, through agencies, or in orphanages. She helps parents explore the difficult truth that the completion of one family is the loss of another, giving them advice and resources for their journey. She’s also the a[...]
Anne Montone and Jennifer Cook are both musicians and and veteran recording artists out of Los Angeles. As first time moms, they started getting tired of their kid's music rotation. In an effort to expand their playlist so that both children and their adults could enjoy it, they started writing their own songs. Through their musical project Again Again, they've created kid-friendly music gear[...]
For several weeks now, I have watched my social media carefully because I started to suspect that perhaps, our DEEP, DARK LADY SECRET was getting ready to accidentally come out. Our secret? We are…Imperfect. *sigh* Constantly. *groan* We yell at our husbands because they didn’t buy the right hamburger meat. We come unraveled when our kids refuse to listen. We fuck up the job of parenting if[...]
*Original post found in July issue of Stellar Day Magazine* I’ve always felt like I was created to create. I’ve collected hobbies with the best of them. I’ve bought into the DIY craze and I get so much satisfaction when I make something myself. I’m a writer, a designer, a painter, a sewer, a photographer… and the list goes on. Only in recent years have I realized that my inn[...]