About Melinda Roberts

Owner of The Mommy Blog[1]

Author of Mommy Confidential: Adventures from the Wonderbelly of Motherhood[2]

Member of John Battelle's Federated Media Parenting and Entertainment Federations[3]

Contributing writer, DotMoms[4]

Melinda is a native Chicagoan transplanted to the Silicon Valley, where she lives with her three California-born children. Through a series of well-laid plans, strategic decisions, spectacular setbacks, and unfortunate mistakes, she has cobbled together a cozy life for her young family.

Mindy spent the last twelve years as a mild-mannered non-profit employee, managing a department and ensuring compliance on contracts. In 2002, after the birth of her third child in four years, she began to write about her life and children in the sleepless hours in an effort to capture her young family's world in real time. Mommy Confidential: Adventures From the Wonder-belly of Motherhood is Mindy's first off-line book and a chronicle of her family's adventures and mishaps through a chaotic period of marital, emotional, and financial strife.

Witty, sarcastic, and always engaging, she tackles the good and the bad with a broad stroke and a sense of humor that give her writing depth and an emotional pull. Besides her obvious, tender love for her children, The Mommy Blog is a place where Mindy reveals some of her fears and disappointments, and talks about her hopes for the future. Readers have laughed and cried along with her, finding inspiration in Mindy's tales. Known for its wide-ranging vocabulary and sharp insight into matters both personal and global, The Mommy Blog is a showcase for Mindy's unique spin. She's quick to highlight other bloggers. With her poise (we assume from her modeling background) and her inner strength (from her tomboyish childhood in Chicago, perhaps), Mindy is a staunch ally and is also a regular contributor to DotMoms (http://www.dot-moms.com/).