So I just set up my “AmazonConnect” thingy, which means that what I write here now appears—I think—below the description for Mama’s Got a Fake I.D.: How to Reveal the Real You Behind All that Mom. Pretty cool.
Trouble is, I have no idea what to say right now. I’m writing because Amazon said, “You’re done. Now [...]

I admittedly hate most of the marketing-type names that moms get saddled with: stay-at-home mom, working mom, soccer mom, Alpha Mom, Beta Mom, yada yada. But within the past year or so, I’ve come across a couple that I love: mompreneur (how sexy is that?!) and my total fave, hybrid mom. If we’ve got to [...]

Again, it’s Caryn the lazy blogger. This time I’m going to steal a quote from one of the members of my Big Mom Group–the collection of women I’ve assembled who’ve been sharing wisdom, insight, and stories for my book. As I’ve been laying out my chapter on the language we use and the answers we [...]

I’ve become a lazy blogger. One of the downsides (and it may be the ONLY downside, actually) of writing a book is that I’m neglectful of this blog, which I really enjoy. I have stacks of things I want to write about here, but need to spend most quiet moments trying to meet the March [...]

If you’re a person (or maybe I should just say “a woman”—men probably get a different answer) who’s ever wrestled with your identity and if you run with the church crowd, you’ve heard this:
Find your identity in Christ.
Am I right? As part of the book I’m working on, I maintain that this is a good answer to the wrong question. And [...]

If you read my two earlier posts, you can see I’ve been wrestling with some things that totally aggravate me. But I need to switch gears—it’s Christmas, after all!
So here’s a quick thought:
Yesterday I found myself doing something I hadn’t done in who knows how long: I walked through a couple of familiar haunts without [...]

Here are a few more questions. This time they’re more on the loss of self:

Describe a time or a situation when you feel most energized and most like yourself.
I’ve heard the loss of self that accompanies motherhood described as an “epidemic.” Can you relate to that? If so, how?
Can you think of a time or [...]

I have a wonderful group of women who’ve agreed to help me out with some stories and “research” for my book. While I’ve emailed them the questions, I also said I’d post some of them online—in the event they’d rather answer them there or to spark some conversation.
Anyone is welcome—and encouraged!—to respond. Here’s the first [...]