Schmutzie
Schmutzie hails from Regina, Saskatchewan and is the founder, administrator, and blogger at Schmutzie.com, performs heroic acts of writing and design at Ninjamatics, and brings some light back into the world at the Grace in Small Things social network. She is also an iPhoneographer, crafter, 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.
Beta Dad
Beta Dad is a forty-something stay-at-home-dad of twin girls born in June, 2009. He has spent most of his adult(ish) life making a living as a carpenter, with the occasional interruption for attempted rock-stardom, college, a stint as a high school English teacher, graduate school, and teaching college writing and literature classes. When he and his wife found out she was pregnant with twins, Beta Dad immediately began building an addition on their house that would double its measly 900 square feet of floorspace. He is currently finishing the last details of that project while the babies nap, as well as teaching the odd writing class at night or online, building a deck here and there, and posting compulsively at his own blog. He’s also a pledge at DadCentric, the bitchinest frat in the dad-o-sphere, a contributor to the venerable group blog, Daddy Dialectic, and an occasional aphorist as @betadad on Twitter. Really? You want more? You could be his facebook friend, or “like” the Beta Dad facebook page, or both. Beta Dad feels weird writing about himself in third-person.
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. 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.
Robin
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. 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.
Marj
Marj Hatzell isn’t a writer but she plays one on TV. She’s a Domestic Engineer, Total Babe, and SAHM of two boys with Autism, ADHD and a variety of other acronyms. Marj was picked last for dodge ball in grade school, was a band geek (she played the flute, and one time, at band camp…), and prefers dogs more than people, which means she has STELLAR social skills. Marj can be bribed to do anything with potatoes and/or bacon. Usually both. Marj also refers to herself in the third person, which is kinda creepy and all Silence-of-the-Lambs-like. If you see her with a bottle of lotion, run. When she isn’t Aiming Low, you can find Marj at her non-paying day job, the wildly unsuccessful blog The Domestic Goddess, on Twitter, and on Facebook.
John
John Cave Osborne is a freelance writer whose work has appeared on such sites as Babble, TLC, YahooShine and the Huffington Post. He was also referenced by Jezebel one time, but he’s pretty sure they were making fun of him. While he’s name dropping, it’s only fair to point out that Ashton Kutcher tweeted one of John’s YouTube videos, but it may have only been because Ashton felt sorry for him. After all, John went from carefree bachelor to father of four in just 13 months thanks to marrying a single mom then quickly conceiving triplets. He chronicled the drastic transition in his 2010 memoir Tales from the Trips. John and his wife, Caroline, just welcomed their fifth child, Grande Finale Osborne, into the world this past July. You can keep up with John on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube as well as on his personal blog which he calls (get this) John Cave Osborne.
Vikki
Vikki is a bored social worker by day and a mom/writer/pop culture junkie by night. She writes about GLBT issues and parenting at her personal blog Up Popped A Fox and her writing has also appeared at Grace the Spot and Autostraddle. She has an inexplicable fascination with marshmallow Peeps and has used them to make two “films”. She is certain that her most recent endeavor, Bunniver’s Travels,will soon be snatched up by a Hollywood bigwig and she’ll be able to quit her day job so that she never has to go into a hoarder’s house again. She lives in Minneapolis with her partner and two kids. In the real world, she never speaks of herself in the third person. You can find Vikki on Twitter as @uppoppedafox.
Alexandra
Alexandra is a writer who has found the secret to getting rich as a blogger that she’ll share with you for just $9.99. When not taking her checks to the bank, Alexandra blogs at Good Day Regular People about life as an overanalyzing mother of three boys trying to go unnoticed in her small town. The most important things you need to know about her are that the internet saves her daily and that she believes the most you can ask for in life is to arrive at the end of it all with your hair messed up, out of breath, and not throwing up. Alexandra is a contributing writer for TikiTikiblog and FunnynotSlutty
Unknown Mami
Unknown Mami is the most interesting woman in the world! Her paper bag alone has experienced more than a lesser person’s 30 gallon garbage bag. Her sweat smells like gardenias. She may or may not be prone to exaggeration, that’s for you to decide. She can be found writing at Unknown Mami, an often humorous blog about life and mami-hood; it’s strong enough for a mami, but made for everyone. She has also been known to get her tweet on. Unknown Mami strives hard to be open-minded and encourages you to NEVER judge a woman by her bag.
Kristin
Kristin Zaslavsky is a decorated member of the antlered community. A marauder on the high seas of corporate America, she is renowned for her ability to invent products that already exist and insults that make no sense. When she’s not busy synergizing backward overflow, she’s trying to scrub the spaghetti stains out of her already shabby clothing. As a result of her failures in that arena, she is the pioneer of the “All Clothes Go Unwashed” school of motherhood and is actively recruiting participants outside of herself. She is regularly screwing around on Twitter @TamingInsanity and writing at Taming Insanity.
Erin
Erin Margolin is a bacon-loving Jew and SAHM to twin girls with a third bun in the oven. When she is not overwhelmed by domestic duties, you can find her canoodling with a book and a glass of Kendall-Jackson Chardonnay. If she’s not writing or dreaming about writing, she’s bound to be microwaving chicken nuggets, screaming at her kids or scooping dog poop. Erin hails from New Orleans, but her husband lured her to the land of Oz, Dorothy, & Toto, where she deals with daily withdrawal from pralines, poboys, and drive-through daquiris. Erin is obsessed with plucking her caterpillar eyebrows into submission. She also grapples with residual issues from having a queer dad and getting knocked up after an infertility diagnosis. She loves vampires, carbs, and her bottle of Prozac. You can find her on Twitter: @ErinMargolin & she blogs at Erin Margolin
Peryl
Peryl Manning is freelance writer who is somewhat surprised to find herself the mother of two almost freakishly active and dimpled little boys. While quite enjoying her unanticipated motherhood, she isn’t entirely sure she should be the one in charge; at thirty-something she still manages to somehow end up sitting in her own gum, and last week she found her credit card wrapped up in the fridge with the leftover pizza. She loves her boys, SpongeBob, mellow mom friends, and anything by Ayelet Waldman; she hates judgy moms, spiders, and anything with truffle oil. She juggles staying at home with her kids, writing a parenting blog for the Seattle Post Intelligencer, as well as contributing regularly to Momtastic Magazine, Mamazina.com, and other parenting magazines and websites, with whatever grace she can manage. You can find her as @momadabsurdum on Twitter.
Poppy
Poppy mothers a nose picker, a window licker and a mean-ager who looks so much like her ex, Rat Bastard, sometimes she would like to smother her with a pillow. When she’s not busy leaving Mint Milano crumbs in the creases of fitness magazines, she selflessly volunteers with the PTA to embezzle latte money. Her life is filled with leisurely trips to the mall, booze filled bon-bons, and navigating domesticity with the best husband she’s had so far. Though her Match.com profile, complete with TMJ disclosure, is on standby, you’ll have better luck finding her blogging at Funnyorsnot or Tweeting.
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.
Liz
Liz Henry is a writer, blogger, and chin-shaving enthusiast. She graduated Summa Cum Lazy with a degree in English Literature. So, yes, Liz knows how to write properly, but chooses not to. She likes sweatpants, cats and her hetero-lifemate, Slasher. They have a nine year-old daughter who recently wrote a back-to-school paper entitled “I am so cool.” Humility does not run in the family. When Liz isn’t checking her five o-clock chin shadow, you can find her contributing vlogs to iVillage, blogging at The Six Year Itch and tweeting about chub rub and what she has in common with the President of the United States; mainly that they both work from home.
Deborah
Deborah Cruz, aka Truthful Mommy, is the creator of the magic that is The TRUTH about Motherhood. She is a wife, a writer, and semi-crunchy, work-at-home Ninja Mommy. She lives smack dab in the Midwest with her two beautiful little princesses minus the tiaras (on most days) bring the drama (times two) and her trusty sidekick, her husband, who she affectionately calls the Big Guy. When she’s not exposing the truth about motherhood, advocating for sisterhood through motherhood or building up her little girls to know that they can rule the world, she can always be found exhausting her potential and realizing her dreams. While waiting on her children in parking lots and pick up lines, she can always be found on Twitter and Facebook, as her iPhone has now become a fully functional appendage. Stop by the blog to see for yourself what a solid intermingling of Mommy brain and verbal diarrhea can produce. It’s all love.
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.
Wendy
Wendy Henderson is an English mum living in the middle of lots of rice fields in Northern Spain, she forgets how she got there but that’s probably because she’s heavily pregnant with/just given birth to her second child. She’d love to have a day job but her Spanish isn’t up to much more than grocery shopping, so she wastes her time on Twitter as @vbincatalunya and occasionally writes blog posts at Very Bored in Catalunya about being English and living in a rice field.She can often be found bemoaning the lack the British cheese and of course, the weather. In her spare time she speed eats Peanut M&M’s and samples the local wine.
Megan
Megan Gordon is a professional writer, amateur photographer and intermittent dreamer. You can find her on Buy-Her.com or adding a peaceful moment of beauty to your day with her photo blog. She is still trying to decide what she wants to be when she grows up. If you follow her on Twitter you might be there when she finally figures it out.
Sarah
Sarah (aka Goon Squad Sarah) spends a lot of time in front of the computer. You can tell because she writes at Sarah and the Goon Squad, Draft Day Suit, That’s Right. You Heard Me, Insert Eyeroll, BlogHer and here. Sarah loves football, beer, singing, sleeping late and Doritos. She lives near Washington D.C. with her husband and boy/girl twins. When she grows up she wants to be Bon Jovi.
Shannon
Shannon Bradley-Colleary blogs at TheWomanFormerlyKnownAsBeautiful.com. She’s the author of Into The Child: 40 weeks in the Gestational Wilderness. She’s also a screenwriter for Lifetime TV, an Aging Vaintress, Mom Butler and Wife Dominatrix. If you like nudity, flatulence, vulgarity and chocolate Schnapps you will enjoy her site. Danke.
Delfin
Delfin Joaquin Paris III has the coolest name ever (according to him). While not royalty, he does have a chihuahua named Lil’ Miss Meepers that he brings to work in a backpack. His blog, ThoughtsFromParis is popular, mostly because of two stories he wrote about his dad’s dick. It is gross. And hilarious.
