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Katherine Ellison is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, former foreign correspondent, writing consultant, and author of four books, including The Mommy Brain: How Motherhood Makes You Smarter. The mother of two sons, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area." ...more

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	Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention 3.73 avg rating — 581 ratings — published 2010 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Square Peg: My Story and What It Means for Raising Innovators, Visionaries, and Out-of-the-Box Thinkers by Todd Rose, Katherine Ellison (Goodreads Author) (Primary Contributor) 4.06 avg rating — 273 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Loving Learning: How Progressive Education Can Save America's Schools by Tom Little, Katherine Ellison (Goodreads Author), Ayelet Waldman (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.88 avg rating — 209 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mommy Brain: How Motherhood Makes Us Smarter 3.60 avg rating — 171 ratings — published 2005 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mothers & Murderers 3.69 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Imelda: Steel Butterfly of the Philippines 4.17 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1988 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Girl CEO (1) (Generation Girl) 4.33 avg rating — 24 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Collaborative Humanities Research and Pedagogy: The Networks of John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert by Katherine Ellison (Goodreads Author) (editor), Susan M. Kim (editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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All Downhill from Here, Right?

Earlier this week I turned in a manuscript that I began in 1991.
That is so embarrassing to say that I feel I must immediately add that since that time I've also raised two boys, authored and co-authored eight other books, done a bunch of consulting gigs, not gotten divorced, supported my parents in their old age, and taken more or less care of three dogs and a garden.
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A Radical Guide for Women with ADHD: Embrace Neurodiversity, Live Boldly, and Break Through Barriers

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Katherine Ellison said: " I love Sari Solden's voice. Women with ADHD, like me, need a ton of encouragement and most of all a feeling that we're not alone, and she, and this book provide that. If you've just been diagnosed, in particular, it's a helpful guide to understanding ...more "

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“You have to be able to slow down enough to switch your focus away from all the ways things could be better, to know how good they already are.”
― Katherine Ellison, Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention

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“I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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