I'm the author of numerous books on pregnancy and parenting, including Sleep Solutions for Your Baby, Toddler, and Preschooler (2006); Mealtime Solutions for Your Baby, Toddler, and Preschooler (2006); The Mother of All Pregnancy Books (2002); The Mother of All Baby Books (2002); The Mother of All Toddler Books (2004); The Mother of All Parenting Books (2004); The Mother of All Pregnancy Organizer… Read more
I'm the author of numerous books on pregnancy and parenting, including Sleep Solutions for Your Baby, Toddler, and Preschooler (2006); Mealtime Solutions for Your Baby, Toddler, and Preschooler (2006); The Mother of All Pregnancy Books (2002); The Mother of All Baby Books (2002); The Mother of All Toddler Books (2004); The Mother of All Parenting Books (2004); The Mother of All Pregnancy Organizers (2004); Choosing Childcare for Dummies (2003); The Unofficial Guide to Having A Baby (2nd edition -- 2004); Trying Again: A Guide to Pregnancy After Miscarriage, Stillbirth, or Infant Loss (2000); and The Unofficial Guide to Childcare.
My husband and I have four children (ages 10-19). I have also experienced miscarriage, stillbirth, and infertility.
Interests
Askville, Facebook, digital photography (http://www.flickr.com/people/anndouglas/), reading, writing fiction, collecting vintage pregnancy and parenting books (the ones with ultra-bossy advice), thrift shop scouting with my ten-year-old, cottaging, c… Read more
Askville, Facebook, digital photography (http://www.flickr.com/people/anndouglas/), reading, writing fiction, collecting vintage pregnancy and parenting books (the ones with ultra-bossy advice), thrift shop scouting with my ten-year-old, cottaging, collage/art, speaking at writering/parenting conferences, volunteering work, social justice.
Blogging @ Motherofallblogs.com and on Yahoo.ca's Lifestyle Channel.
Very Promising Start to What Will Be a Fabulous Novel, January 21, 2008
Natalie Michelle Jenner has a flair for writing the kind of novel that immediately draws the reader in. There's so much going on below the surface in this finely crafted piece of fiction: a complex plot involving a cast of characters with complex motivations -- to say nothing of secrets and long-standing rivalries galore.
Jenner has chosen the ideal era for this complex novel exploring the changing roles of women -- the early 1960s. And she provides the reader with a wonderfully frank narrator who isn't going to put a positive spin on anything.
She muses about her parents: "My father had had to give me up, to school, and my predictable years of teenage rebellion,… Read more
SOMEDAY is a mother's heartfelt storybook wish for her child -- that her child will grow up healthy, experience great joys, and someday have a family of her own. It's also a wish that she will be lovingly remembered by her child ("Someday, a long time from now, your own hair will glow silver in the sun. And when that day comes, love, you will remember be.") The book is reminiscent of Robert Munsch's Love You Forever, but the storyline is simpler and more realistic. The illustrations complement the story beautifully. Highly recommended.
Write Away -- by bestselling novelist Elizabeth George -- explains the science as well as the art involved in crafting fiction. Topics covered include mapping out a story structure that will keep the reader engaged, creating fascinating yet believable characters (people who are slightly larger than life, but neither so perfect that your reader will hate them nor so loathsome that your reader won't want anything to do with them), researching potential settings (and then altering them to make them your own), and the hard work involved in completing a book-length piece of writing. This is one of the most practical guides to writing fiction I've read yet. Highly recommended.
Discipline doesn't have to be about power struggles -- someone winning and someone losing. It can be about parents and kids learning together. Or at least that's how I see it and that's how the other authors on my book list see it, too.
The guides that made my list offer fresh ideas, encourage&hellip Read more
Does your ten-year-old constantly amaze you with his knowledge of the world of packaged food? Can he drop industry buzz words like trans fats into ordinary conversations with such a ring of authority that you start to wonder if he's been moonlighting in the product development lab for some food&hellip Read more
Curious about the sex of the tiny tenant who’s sub-letting your belly (or, to be more precise, your uterus)?
You’re not alone.
Since the beginning of time, moms-to-be have tried to predict the sex of their baby-to-be. And without the benefit of our high-tech diagnostic methods, they had to come&hellip Read more
I have approximately 5000 books and I am constantly buying more. I also give away books all the time, to make room for the other books I can't resist bringing home. I am truly a hopeless case. I have catalogued about 600 of the books in my personal collection over at LibraryThing.com. I could probably list most of that books right here if I had the time and the space, but I'd bring down the Amazon.com server, I'm sure. So I'll list a few for now and swap my choices one day soon.
![A Christmas Story (1983) [VHS] <b>VHS</b> ~ Yano Anaya](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51S0GPD2SCL._SL500_SS90_.jpg)
![Leaving Las Vegas [Region 2] <b>DVD</b> ~ Nicolas Cage](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51F5D9799GL._SL500_SS90_.jpg)
