Take a woman fresh out of college, plop her down in Silicon Valley, saddle her with a mortgage, let her ride the tech boom, give her three babies in four years, slap her with the tech bust, watch... More > vicariously as her marriage disintegrates, end her career, and hand her a computer. What do you get? A memoir in real time adapted from the wildly popular weblog, The Mommy Blog.Mommy Confidential is a naked, brutally funny, endearingly honest chronicle of family life beset by disaster on many fronts. Mindy keeps her family together through catastrophic illness, four bouts of postpartum depression, financial peril, relationship Chernobyl, familial Waterloo, and job instability. All through it her sense of humor and her sharp, edgy, witty writing keep her together and upright.< Less
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About Melinda Roberts
Melinda Roberts, a pioneer blogger, founded The Mommy Blog (themommyblog.net) in 2002. A former non-profit executive, she's now a key influence for moms on the Internet. As a single mom with 3 children, Melinda has founded a design company, become a spokeswoman for the mommy blogging community, and published "Mommy Confidential: Adventures from the Wonderbelly of Motherhood".
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