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• Adult Garanimals: What's Your Working Mom Uniform?

  Here I am earlier tonight, talking to the very clever students who run the University of Tennessee's digital journalism showcase,TNJN. I had a great time, and appreciate having been asked. As you can see in the photo below, I am wearing my defacto version of adult Garanimals - black, black and then some more black. These black on black ensembles are easy to throw together without being all matchy, matchy. Or at least that's what I like to tell myself. Read More... Posted Nov 19 2009, 11:51 PM by kgranju with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: Katie Allison Granju, Working Mothers, University of Tennessee, TNJN

• I bring home the bacon; he fries it up in the pan

  I come from a family of working women. My grandmother was a journalist for nearly 60 years, serving as editor of the iconic Hollywood tabloid, Photoplay magazine during my childhood (that's my grandmother toiling at her Photoplay desk in the photo below). My mother was a newspaper reporter and editor, a wire service bureau chief, and currently serves as the PR flack for a major government agency. So I always expected that I would work. But even with the feminist upbringing I received, I must have somehow always held the thought in the back of my mind that the ultimate responsibility for keeping the wolf from the door would belong to someone else, not me. This wasn't ever really a conscious assumption. In fact, had you asked, I would have denied it. I actually only realized I held this view after life finally put me in charge of keeping an entire family fed and clothed and housed   Read More... Posted Oct 28 2008, 12:49 PM by kgranju with | with 17 comment(s) Filed under: Katie Allison Granju, Working Mothers, economy

• When work and kids meet

  I've been writing to pay the bills since my children were very young. As long as they have been aware, they have had the experience of having people comment to them  - and to me in their presence - about books or articles or essays or blog posts that I've written.   (Me, at work, blogging from Bonnaroo, 2006)   Mostly, that's a pleasant experience for them because 99.9% of the time, the people who take the time to talk to them or around them about their mother's published writing are doing so because they have something positive to say - stuff like "I enjoyed that article your mom wrote for the newspaper last week," or "I like your mother's blog," or "It must be fun having a mother who is a writer." Read More... Posted Oct 13 2008, 11:09 AM by kgranju with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Politics, Katie Allison Granju, Parenting, Working Mothers, Blogging

• Please allow me to introduce myself

  Thanks for visiting my new Babble blog. I'm really excited to be here. I'm a daily Babble reader, and I've contributed several essays to the site, including one on "overparenting," and another on why I like having a large family. And I do indeed have a pretty big brood, especially by today's standards. Allow me to introduce you to the many people who inhabit my domestic planet.   Read More... Posted Sep 29 2008, 04:41 PM by necroemoticon with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Message from Katie, Politics, Katie Allison Granju, Family, Parenting, Attachment Parenting, Working Mothers, Kids