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Photo credit: James Duncan Davidson
© Asha Dornfest, 2005-2006. All rights reserved.
My essays, articles, etc.
- Gender Rolling
For Off Our Backs: The prospect of becoming a gender "role model" caused me to rexamine my habitual feminism. - Noms de Mom
For Mommybloggers: I wrestle with the Mom/Mommy/Mama identity crisis. - The Blogging Mom Clique:
Anyone Can Join
For Mothers Movement Online: What it was like to join the community of blogging mothers. - A Weblog of One's Own
For Mothers Movement Online: How to start blogging. - Exposure
For Literary Mama: Why it's scary (and important) to write publicly about the dark moments in motherhood. - What I Carry
For Mamazine: an exploration of the various physical, mental, and psychological "loads" I carry as a mother. - Mama Bought the Cafe!
For Hip Mama: The Parenting Zine: profile of Audra Carmine, single mom and owner of Junior's Cafe in Portland, Oregon. - The Garden as Learning Laboratory
For Organic Family magazine: an article about garden-based learning. - Morning Has Broken
For The Imperfect Parent: a typical morning in my house, slightly -- I repeat, slightly -- exaggerated for comic effect. - Made Up
Back to junior high...
Books I've written
Asha Dornfest: FrontPage 2003 For Dummies
The Enduring Classic.Asha Dornfest: Dummies 101: FrontPage 98
The Dummies 101 series pooped out after FrontPage 98. Too bad -- the format suited people who like lots of pictures.Asha Dornfest: ABC's of Pagemill 2
Ah, those were the days. Out of print.- Asha Dornfest: Do-It-Yourself Web Publishing with Word
My first book, circa 1995, back when HTML was something new. Out of print.
Contact
- Email Address:
- Website: http://weblog.ashaland.com
Biography
Writer and devoted mother, Asha Dornfest rises at 5:30am each morning. She begins her day by exercising at her target heart rate for at least thirty minutes. After a cool shower and a cup of herbal tea, she sits down to write her daily quota of two thousand words, pausing only to watch the sun rise outside her studio window. By the time her children wake, she is ready to greet them, smiling, knowing she is the luckiest woman in the world. She truly has it all.
Dornfest lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, noted developer and thinker Rael Dornfest, and their son and daughter.
Lies, most of it. I'm suspicious of those self-aggrandizing bios lurking in italics at the ends of magazine pieces, so writing one for myself poses a bit of a problem. Modesty's not the issue; it's the assumption the writing doesn't stand well enough on its own; that it needs a little name- (or publication-) dropping at the end for good measure.
That said, after my work appears in Salon or Brain, Child, you can be sure as hell I'll put it in my bio.
I really am a writer and a mother. In fact, motherhood and the vicissitudes of domestic life are among my favorite topics. Much remains unsaid about what goes on inside the homes (and minds) of parents, which is why I write as honestly as I can about my experience staying home raising my kids.
I've been writing professionally for over ten years. My most popular book, FrontPage 2003 For Dummies (Wiley, 2003), is now in its fifth edition. I have written or contributed to a number of tech how-to books, all for beginners. I have little use for techno-speak -- computers are irritating enough without having to contend with an unreadable guidebook. Readers appreciate my easygoing approach to topics they find intimidating.
I love to tell stories. I love to read. I love to learn about new things. I love to think about old things. Most importantly, I love to talk to people and listen to their stories.
A note about names: In my writing (including my weblog), I often change peoples' names to protect their privacy.
