...because motherhood is literary.

Posted by Pamela Vanden Bos, Managing Editor MWLM
February 20, 2009
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The following rules have been taken directly from an article titled,‘The good wife’s guide’ It was published in Housekeeping Monthly May 13, 1955.

Women: I’d like to hear your feedback.

Men: Were those the good old days?


• Have dinner ready. Plan ahead, even the night before, to have a delicious meal ready, on time for his return. This is a way of letting him… Continue

By Julie 2/3/09
Posted MWLM blog


You know that feeling you have when you are thoroughly engaged in something and time seems to stand still?

You are so focused and engrossed. It’s fun, it feels good, and you’re very productive!

Then something happens, like the phone rings or an email pops up or something else interrupts your attention. It’s hard to get that feeling back.

This feeling of engagement is called many things including “flow” or being in “the zone”. Whatever you call it, it is abou… Continue

JANUARY 13, 2009
Posted by Robin Dutton-Cookston, MWLM Senior Editor


I recently read Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird. Although originally published in 1994, this inspirational book for fledgling writers is a timeless trove of advice from an experienced author who has been there. Anne knows the elation of creating a story that works and the abysmal crash of writing something that flops, and she shares what she has gleaned from her own creative peaks and valleys. Mom-writers probably recognize Anne L… Continue

Do You Hear The Message?
by Pamela Vanden Bos of MWLM


A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousand of people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.

Three minutes went by and a middle aged man noticed there was musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hur… Continue

JANUARY 06, 2009
by Loren Christie at MWLM

Restless. This word defines me often. Although I can usually drown this feeling in daily activities, it always surfaces near a shelf of books.

No matter where I go in the world I end up searching for a new bookstore, subconsciously seeking some literary treasure that I never can find. When I was a baby, my parents had enormous pine bookcases that I would spend each day climbing, tossing paperbacks until I had transformed the topography of the living r… Continue