Dara

Dara was born on an airplane over the Atlantic which has resulted in a permanent situation of being neither here nor there. You could say she’s everywhere, like the wind. Or maybe that’s just her breaking wind… Her superpowers include: pretending she means what she says; sleep-deprivation vanquishing through dancing in the kitchen; and vegetable concealing heat ray vision (aka pureeing microwaved vegetables into dishes they don’t belong in). Sometimes she writes stuff. Occasionally she gets paid for it. And apparently she can make social media make sense. She tweets and titillates and talks about tits.

Julia

Julia Roberts married into the name. In case you didn’t know, (the famous) Julia Roberts will not call your establishment to make her own tire rotation appointment or to argue about her cell phone charges. To make matters worse, this Julia Roberts husband’s name is Julian. They own a marketing firm together. They know. It’s a bit much for them, too. A geneticist’s dream, they produced two cute kids with a rare syndrome that includes a vision disorder and a crazy kidney disease; resulting in weirdly moving eyes and kidney transplants for both at age of 8. She’d like to dispel the myth that they are heroic; they talk about their kids’ poop just like the rest of you mere mortals. She’s a believer in friends (who cook), extended family (who babysit) and an intuitive husband (who brings her diet coke before she even knows she needs one) she’s happily married to, even with her high maintenance kids. Why happily? They have the agreement that the first one who leaves the marriage has to take the kids. Julia speaks to groups on topics about navigating life as a special needs family. She blogs at Kidneys and Eyes and created a social networking site for special needs families, Support for Special Needs with writer/blogger Dawn Friedman. You can find her on twitter as @juliaroberts1.

Heather

Heather Durdil is an organizationally challenged thirty something wife, mother, & photographer living in small town about 25 miles west of Cleveland, Ohio. When not answering questions like “How are you old enough to have a daughter who drives?” and “You really think people want to read about your life in the internet?” she is taking massive amounts of photos of the said daughters and other people or writing at her blog Domestic Extraordinaire, where her tagline reads “I do it all. I never said I do it all well.” She chronicles her life as a SAHM/WAHM and shows all of her pretty, pretty pictures and some of the not so pretty ones too. You can also find her on twitter under the name @DExtraordinaire.

Schmutzie

Schmutzie hails from Regina, Saskatchewan and is the founder, administrator, and blogger at Schmutzie.com, the Canadian Weblog Awards, and the Grace in Small Things social network, as well as being a contributing writer at BlogHer and Life As A Human. She is also a graphic designer, documentary photographer, and a shoe salesperson, because she’s found that elusive 25th hour in the day. Don’t ask her where she put it, though. She’s not sharing.

Dresden

Dresden is tall, LOVES plaid and hates cilantro. She studied theatre at NYU and RADA. (You can tell she is snobby about it because she spells theatRE the correct way.) She worked in the film industry in LA & soon her nondisclosures will expire and she can tell you all about the size of everyone’s penis ego.  She left LA to take care of her Grandmother as she suffered with Alzheimer’s. The internet got her pregnant (true story), her Grandmother died, and she learned about bad times. She’s now a total Todd Parr storyline living with her awesome Mom and super tall toddler in Philly. She blogs at Creating Motherhood and tweets@DresdenPlaid

Robin Plemmons

Robin Plemmons is not afraid to talk about the things you might be afraid to talk about. Like nipple hair or farting during sex. She lives & blogs in the wonderfully weird & vibrant mountain town of Asheville, NC where she was voted “Blogger I’d Most Like To Have A Beer With” & “Blogger You’d Most Like To See Naked.” She is an artist by trade & creates greeting cards & paintings that you would only send to your most awesomest friends. She fell in love with a local boy with a dirty mouth, married him & then promptly procreated. Their love child, Ruby, entered the world in 2008 & increased the size of their hearts by a bajillion trillion. After feeling the need to lift her self-imposed filter, Robin has adopted the phrase “Balls To The Wall, Y’all” as her own personal motto & is blogging with reckless abandon at ballstothewallyall.com. She is better at showing than telling, is inspired by poop & pee jokes, & encourages others to let their freak flags fly. You can find her colorful, potty-mouthed art at lemonswithapea.etsy.com and if you like stupid shit, follow her on twitter.

Faiqa Khan

Woman, daughter, sister, friend, wife, mother and architect of a mostly benevolent plan of future world domination. There will be ice cream and Dr. Pepper for everyone. Faiqa can be found at her personal blog at Native Born or listened to on the Hey! That’s My Hummus! podcast. Short bursts of Faiqa can also be experienced on Twitter, as well.

Mandy

Mandy Dawson is a single mother of two living in California where she spends her time working, canning, cooking, baking, gardening, writing and chicken raising. She’s a regular contributor to Momtastic and has been featured on The Mommies Network, BlogHer and Mamapedia. She spends an inordinate amount of time on her own blog In Mandyland where she writes about anything from her inability to dress herself in a presentable manner to her fascination with infomercials. She’s excited to be writing for Aiming Low Teach, mostly because the last time she taught a class it involved gallons of sticky strawberry jam, five pots of boiling water and an industrial kitchen fan that drown out her voice. She wants you to remember that she’s not a professional chef nor is she a professional crafter. She is, however, a professional talker which is close enough.

Caitlin

Caitlin, a.k.a MommyGeek, is a member of the iGeneration. This means she’s super into technology, and when the robots take over the world, will either be one of the first killed (she knows too much) or recruited to help enslave you (she knows too much – and sympathizes with the robots). Right now she keeps a personal blog, MommyGeekology, runs Rent a Geek Mom web design, and maintains a healthy diet of Cheez Doodles. She’s also a member of the support team at Headway Themes. If you don’t think she’s aiming low, then you haven’t seen her toilets, her closets, her kitchen, her car, Mount Laundry, or her daily attire. You can find her tweeting as @mommygeekology instead of cleaning or cooking nutritious dinners for her two kids, Cupcake (girl, 5yrs) and Geeklet (girl, 3yrs).

Piera

Piera Jolly is a thirty-something wife, mother, blogger, aspiring cookbook author and wannabe photographer living in Atlanta, Georgia. Don’t be fooled by the name though. Piera is not always so “jolly”. Well, unless she’s eating chocolate ice cream with corn flakes watching Dawson’s Creek reruns. Try it. You just might like it. Piera also likes to channel her inner Julia Child in the kitchen and can regularly be found watching old episodes of The French Chef over and over. When she’s not puttering around in the kitchen, Piera is trying to keep up with her energetic three year old son, Lucas or hanging out with her best friend and love of her life, Mike. In 2008, Piera founded JollyMom.com, a savvy blog that provides moms with helpful parenting information, fun child-friendly activities, craft ideas, recipes, and the latest trends for moms, kids, and families. JollyMom.com is also proud to have been named a Power Mom by Nielsen in 2009 and one of Access Communication’s Top 50 Mommy Blogs in 2010! You can find Piera tweeting as @jollymom or on Facebook as TheJollyMom.