Ellen and Annie reunite after many months and we talk about the cutest baby and Ellen reveals a secret we've kept from listeners. We talk disciplining children, and why Drew isn't starting a home daycare any time soon.

We love you, you're doing a good job.

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Annie Ellen and Tessa

We're back! Hoping to start more regular programming...

For free admission to the Novel & Memoir classes, preorder Tessa's novel The Red Grove from any bookstore and email receipt to goodmomsonpaper@gmail.com

Novel Class, April 23 at 8 pm est on zoom
Memoir class, April 30 at 8 pm est on zoom

One place to preorder: https://riffraffpvd.com/the-red-grove-a-novel/

Also mentioned: Lucas Mann's Attachments and Clare Beams's The Garden

Speechify code: https://share.speechify.com/mzuRNGP

Annie and Tessa got to hang with Lucas Mann, the author of the forthcoming essay collection ATTACHMENTS (May, 2024) and the new co-owner of the bookstore/bar Riff Raff in Providence with his wife, Ottavia De Luca. He is also the author of Captive Audience: On Love and Reality Television, Lord Fear: A Memoir, and Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere.

Here is Lucas's website: https://www.lucasmann.com/
His bookstore: https://riffraffpvd.com/

No preorder link for Attachments as of Nov 8, but I'll update when there is one!

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The Good Moms

We're back! We missed you! In this casual return episode, we talked about Tessa's great adventures spending a few months in Portugal with a toddler, about Tessa's upcoming book THE RED GROVE (preorder now!), about our writing contracts and our accountability group -- and new website!!! Oh, and Annie cries at the end.

The Red Grove preorder!

New website: https://www.accountabilityworkshops.com/

Ellen & Annie got to talk with Sara Peterson, author of Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture. We have been waiting for this episode and Sara didn't disappoint!

About her work, Sara says: "I want to understand why our culture idealizes motherhood (online and off) but fails again and again to give moms what they need to thrive (like universal preschool, paid family leave, subsidized childcare)."

Buy Momfluenced here

Subscribe to Sara's newsletter here

This is the Brandon Taylor "review" we referenced

This is our final episode until the fall -- have a great summer, you're doing a great job!

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The Good Moms

Tessa and Annie got the chance to talk to Yael Goldstein-Love, author of The Possibilities, about postpartum anxiety and writing as a meaning making practice. Yael is on tour now -- try to see her!

Buy The Possibilities here


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The Good Moms

Hi friends --

Tessa and Ellen chatted with Szilvia Molnar and she had wonderful things to say about her new book, The Nursery, literature that makes you uncomfortable, mental health, and about the urgency to "stitch yourself back together after birth" and what she learned between her first and second pregnancies.

Buy The Nursery here

Read Ellen's Fleishman essay

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The Good Moms

Hi friends --

Tessa and Annie connected with Disha Bose, author of the April Good Morning America Bookclub pick Dirty Laundry. She talks about writing after having a kid, writing during the pandemic, the man who said her career was over after kids and: how she showed him!!!

Get Disha Bose's book here:
DIRTY LAUNDRY


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The Good Moms