Mary McCarthy

Author Archive

  • June 18, 2013
    I was in a Baltimore Starbucks killing time while the dealership got my daughter’s car ready, and in the comfy brown leather chair next to me lounged what I consider a...
  • February 26, 2013
      Listen, before I open up a jug of haterade on mommybloggers, let me just admit that I’ve been what some refer to as a mommyblogger myself for the past five years....
  • February 15, 2013
    During half of last year I wrote a novel. And during that time, I read six or so novels, all related to research for my book. So once the new year rolled around and it was time to...
  • January 12, 2013
    It took me awhile to figure out that writing could be a career. I was editor of my elementary school yearbook and the high school and college newspapers, but in none of my...
  • January 9, 2013
    After you pay $29 a ticket, the first thing that happens when you enter the Titanic exhibit (at Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute through April) is that you are given a...