Jason Good is a comedian, writer, and numerous other things he's not willing to admit publicly.  A children's book based on his blog post, “3 Minutes Inside the Head of My 2 Year Old” is due to be released by in 2013. He is also a contributing writer to Parents Magazine. Jason lives in New Jersey with his wife and two sons, and enjoys making them laugh more than anyone. If you understand sarcasm, follow him on twitter.

Not Chasing Amy

We were nestled in the relationship sweet spot: lying on separate sofas watching Gwyneth Paltrow deliver her Oscar acceptance speech for Shakespeare in Love. Then Amy muted the television and cleared her throat. The words came off her tongue too cleanly to be natural, making me suspect that her cats had heard them a few times before I did.

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Lisa Robertson’s poetry and short fiction have appeared in the Salt River Review, The Apple Valley Review, Word Riot, the forthcoming Tahoe Blues Anthology, and have received an honorable mention from Glimmer Train in the December 2011 Fiction Open contest. She is the tiniest bit relieved that this essay was rejected by Modern Love, because she had promised her husband that upon acceptance, she would forgive him for the wedding ring disaster. Turns out, he is still very much on the hook.

Conflict Free

My grandmother had worn a two-carat princess cut diamond solitaire wedding ring for most of her adult life. My own mother, in defiance of her mom, had worn a plain gold band, so unadorned that her wearing it was nothing short of an act of war. And whenever I looked at my mother’s ring, I knew that I wanted the exact opposite.

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Cynthia A. Clark lives in Boston, MA and outside Orvieto, Italy, where she practices her art of photography after a long career in law and psychology. A relentless world traveler, she is currently working on 2 exhibitions of her photos, finishing the writing of her memoirs of her years on the Podere Ansano farm in Italy, and preparing for 4 months in Africa.  She volunteers teaching English as a second language wherever she travels and in Boston.

He Had me at Miao

It was a most improbable beginning for the great love story it became, lasting over 11 years. In fact, we never should have crossed paths: first, because we were in Italy for just a year; second, because I had no intention of complicating my life and, third, because he was in such bad shape.

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Sarah Archibald lives in Madison, Wis., where she blogs, works to change education policy in ways that help kids, parents her own two kids, and writes some combination of a memoir and a screenplay, so far mainly in her head.

A Wicked Wedding Surprise

I fell in love again this past summer. I met him in July at the wedding of a mutual friend, the first wedding either of us had been to since our own divorces. But I’d had more time to recover from the trauma of dividing up a life once shared: I’d been divorced 15 months; he’d been divorced 15 days.

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Sarah Shellock is a Naval Academy graduate and just ended her career as a naval officer to stay at home full-time with her daughter, Ruby, and follow her husband around as a Navy wife.  She is obsessed with politics, cooking, and her baby girl. Sarah recently started blogging at Loudmouth Mommy, where she writes about her transition to the civilian world, shares the occasional recipe, and posts tons of Ruby pictures, showing off her non-existent Instagram skills.

Sacramental Milk

In the Anglican Church in which I was raised, a sacrament is an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace, and that is exactly what my breast milk is: the visible, physical manifestation of the spiritual and emotional love I have for my daughter, Ruby.

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Caroline Helper is a Los-Angeles-born writer living and writing in New York City. Writing mostly about food and wine, Helper has freelanced for various online websites such as Vine Talk, Refinery 29, Big Girl Small Kitchen, and Thought Catalog, while also writing her own wine blog, called Forget Burgundy. Helper has an insatiable passion for food, wine, and all things culinary and hopes, one day, to be able to pay the rent through her writing and ramblings about eating, drinking, and cooking. In addition to her obsession with food and wine, Helper has a strange and unwavering affection for chick singers, Woody Allen movies and good romantic comedies.

Patient as Penelope

In college I went through a phase of being mildly obsessed with the women that occupy Greek mythology. More than any of the goddesses, nymphs, or even that troublemaker Helen, my obsession usually came back around to Penelope. My appreciation for Penelope wasn’t borne of a feminist appreciation of her cunning or an incredulous respect for her fidelity and patience (20 years of chastity and obnoxious houseguests? Forget it!).

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