Posted: Parenting, Pets and Menopause, One Status Update At a Time

by Maggie Lamond Simone

This book is simply a compilation of a couple years’ worth of random Facebook status updates. Though a columnist by trade, I have found, through the processes of both parenting and menopause, that my coherent thoughts are becoming shorter and shorter, fewer and farther between. Someday they may even reach the realm of Twitter-worthy, but not today. Today I’m still capable of a Facebook-status sentence, and I celebrate this.

In fact, I celebrate it right here.

120 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 5, 2011

About the author

MAGGIE LAMOND SIMONE is a national award-winning columnist and author. Her memoir, “Body Punishment: OCD, Addiction and Finding the Courage to Heal,” was released in April 2015 (Central Recovery Press), earning her a spot at the 2015 BEA in New York City. Her essay collection, “From Beer to Maternity,” was a 2010 USA Book News Finalist for humor, and her columns can also be found in “The Zen of Midlife Mothering” (2013), “Not Your Mother’s Book on Do-It-Yourselfers” (2013), “P.S. What I Didn’t Say” (2009), “Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Resolution” (2008), “Chicken Soup for the New Mom’s Soul” (2007), “Chicken Soup for the Soul in Menopause” (2007), “Misadventures of Moms and Disasters of Dads” (2004), “Hello, Goodbye” (2004), Cosmopolitan magazine, and Notebook: Magazine (Australia). She also has an e-book, “POSTED! Parenting, Pets and Menopause, One Status Update at a Time” (2011).

Her humor and observational essays have appeared since 2002 in Family Times, The Parenting Guide of Central New York, an award-winning monthly parenting magazine. Her columns also appeared in the Sunday edition of the Syracuse Herald American (cir. 250,000) from 1995 through 2001. She’s won multiple national awards through Parenting Publications of America, including multiple Gold Awards for Humor and for Personal Essay.

Ms. Simone has been a monthly guest on WNTQ-Syracuse (93Q) since 2005, and she has also been a guest on NPR. She was a frequent panelist on the local PBS affiliate’s monthly “Media Roundtable.” In promoting “From Beer to Maternity” and “Body Punishment,” she has been featured on the ABC, Fox and PBS affiliates nationwide, as well as numerous radio programs in the United States, Canada and the UK. She is an adjunct professor in the department of communications at SUNY Oswego, Oswego, N.Y. and Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, N.Y., and a blogger for The Huffington Post.

She is a graduate of Hobart and William Smith College (Geneva, N.Y.) and Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University (Syracuse, N.Y.). She lives in Central New York with her husband and two children.