Just The Way We Are
Leslie Marinelli is a writer, wife, mother of three, amateur homemaker, and transplanted Pittsburgher in the suburbs of Atlanta. She created her blog, The Bearded Iris: A Recalcitrant Wife and Mother Tells All, in 2008 as a way to relieve the tedium of being an invisible vessel for grandchildren and PTA donations. Four years later, she is a BlogHer Voice of the Year, a Babble Top 100 Mom Blogger, and a Circle of Moms Top 25 Funny Mom. She enjoys writing about herself in the third person as much as she enjoys getting episiotomies and finding hair in her food.
Leslie can also be found loitering In The Powder Room, a global online community for women, where she is the Editor in Chief and a weekly columnist. She also Tweets like she parents: loudly and with a lot of apologies.
I have a witch mole. It is a birthmark on my cheek that sticks out like someone glued the tip of a skin-colored raisin to my face. When I was a little girl, it was just a dark, slightly raised “beauty mark” like Natalie Portman’s signature mole. But now that I’m 42 and [...]
I posted photos of myself in a bathing suit on my blog the other day. Silly photos. Photos of me cutting it up with my kids at the beach. I just wanted to share a story about how making my kids laugh is one of my favorite things. What happened instead was barroom brawl [...]
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