Mamaphonic Book Tour, Atomic Books in Baltimore: Winter 2004.
This night was such fun! It was my first time in Baltimore, and not only did we have the pleasure of reading at what is inarguably the greatest independent bookstore in the country, but I had the distinct privilege of meeting, for the first time, several mamas whom I had previously known only online — women whom I absolutely adore and now count among my most treasured friends: , , , , , , and many others.
Oh, yeah…and I can’t forget the city herself. What a wondrous place! Someday, I shall return to the city of red bricks and extraordinary women — perhaps on yet another book tour. I am besotted with Baltimore…and the dames who call her home.
(l to r) Lli Wilburn, Maia Rossini, Bee Lavender, and Muffy Bolding


About muffybolding
Muffy Bolding is a mother/writer/actor/knitter/feminist/withered debutante who likes the smell of asparagus pee, and remains obsessed with the bathroom hygiene of her three children -- despite the fact that they are 23, 19, and 16. She is blissfully married to a cute Jewish boy who looks like Willie Wonka, but remains tragically in love with the dead poet, Ted Hughes. She has the mouth of a Teamster, and her patron saint is Rocco (pestilence relief.) Ms. Bolding lives in Southern California, where she enjoys typing words, making movies, and plucking the rings from the fingers of the dead. She was the co-creator and Editor-in-Chief of the award winning satire zine, Fresno Lampoon, and in between writing screenplays, carnival barking, and savagely threatening her trio of darling larvae with a wooden spoon, she currently publishes the zine, "Withered Debutante." More of her work can also be found in the anthology, "Mamaphonic: Balancing Motherhood and Other Creative Acts", the compilation zine, "Mamaphiles III: Coming Home", as well as in The Cortland Review and hipmama.com. She is currently writing and producing for film and television, and working on a book of essays entitled, "Inside A Chinese Dragon." She has slept around, but not nearly as much as she would have liked.
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