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Run Like A Mother: book review by Devon Barta
Today, I’m excited to bring you something new – a book review by contributor Devon Barta. I hope you enjoy! When I first became a mom, I heard “take care of yourself,” casually thrown my way, too many...
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Book Review: The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green
I’m very excited to bring you another installment of our monthly(ish) book reviews from guest contributor Devon Barta! As usual Devon does a wonderful job drawing comparisons between literature and how...
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Book Review: Tales from the Odyssey
I’m very excited to bring you another installment of our monthly(ish) book essays from guest contributor Devon Barta! My husband and I are just about to update the floors in our spare bedroom. They are...
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Book Review: The Year of Learning Dangerously by Quinn Cummings
For nearly thirty-five years I have never known how to pronounce the word chic. I knew what it meant, of course – stylish, trendy, cutting-edge – I just thought it was pronounced “chick.” And whenever...
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Book Review: Q&A a Day for Kids
Today’s post is written by Happiest Mom contributor and resident book reviewer Devon Barta of The Paperhouse. Enjoy! The other day Jack told me that he wanted soup for lunch, that he wanted homemade...
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Join my reading club – and get The Happiness Project at 55% off (only $4.99!)
I’m the kind of person who talks to myself when I read. I make little comments, ask questions, and muse aloud over the passages that speak to me. No matter what I’m reading, I’ve always got something...
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Book Review: Dwarf by Tiffanie DiDonato
Today’s post is written by Happiest Mom contributor and resident book reviewer Devon Barta of The Paperhouse. Enjoy! When my husband and I went shopping for our first piece of living room furniture, we...
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Book Review: Press Here
Today’s post is written by Happiest Mom contributor and resident book reviewer Devon Barta of The Paperhouse. Enjoy! When it comes to children’s books, it’s nearly impossible to go wrong. While in the...
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The Business of Baby by Jennifer Margulis
Jennifer Margulis is a good friend of mine. We first became acquainted about ten years ago, as part of an email list for writer moms started by Katie Granju. We’ve roomed together at conferences,...
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Book Review: Carry On, Warrior
Today’s post is written by Happiest Home contributor and resident book reviewer Devon Barta of The Paperhouse. Enjoy! Last week was a tough week. We had four t-ball games, four gymnastics rehearsals...
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Summer Book Club: How to encourage kids to read over the summer break
Today’s post is written by Happiest Home contributor and resident book reviewer Devon Barta of The Paperhouse. Enjoy! Like most libraries, ours does a fantastic job of engaging young readers. It offers...
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New episode of The Kitchen Hour podcast with Christine Koh and Asha Dornfest...
I’ve always been a bit of a “minimalist” parent. I just didn’t know that there was such a thing, and that you could be a “minimalist” mom and a good mom at the same time. In my youngest years of...
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Help women in need with Asha & Christine of Minimalist Parenting
In the busy-ness of day-to-day life, my very ordinary first-world “problems” – for example, the unexpected brake system overhaul I needed two weeks ago, followed by another unexpected repair in my...
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Gift idea for book lovers on your list: Scribd (free trial + giveaway!)
* * * UPDATE! * * * Congrats to reader Brandee, who won the six month membership to Scribd in our giveaway (and thanks again to Scribd for providing the giveaway)! Don’t forget – all our readers can...
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What's coming up for The Happiest Mom?
The Happiest Mom: 10 Secrets To Enjoying Motherhood. In bookstores April 1; available for pre-order now! Hello everyone, Just a note about where The Happiest Mom is headed over the next few months....
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Baby Files, Episode 2: The Baby Shower
Today I’m interrupting my “feeling guilty about leaving the kids” series to give you my second attempt at a short, funny video to promote One Year To An Organized Life With Baby–which, by the way, is...
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Introducing The Happiest Mom! Sneak peek at Chapter 1: Take The Easy Way Out
Image: The Happiest Mom: 10 Secrets To Enjoying Motherhood (Weldon Owen, April 2011) Today officially kicks off my ten-week blog countdown to the launch of The Happiest Mom: 10 Secrets To Enjoying...
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Happy Moms on the Today Show
coming VERY soon! Looks like the message is spreading: It’s just as important to be a happy mom as a “good” one (whatever that means, right?) Just a few days after my Fox & Friends appearance on...
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the art of making dreams come true: interview with novelist Camille Noe Pagan
The debut novel of mom of two Camille Noe Pagan, The Art Of Forgetting. Long before I ever penned my first magazine story, I dreamed of being a fiction writer. In my early 20s, before I’d started...
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Help me choose my next book project!
I warned you! I still have a couple of weeks of my upgraded SurveyMonkey membership left, so I’ve created another survey I hope you’ll take. This one is all about e-books. Since some of you have...
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