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Meet Kate Crowder
Published January 2007 on HipMama.com
At 9:00pm on a Friday, I was busy trying to get my monkeys (Satchel, age 4 and Jiro, age 2) in bed so I could sneak out and interview Kate Crowder, the lead singer of my new favorite band, Two Way Radio (formerly known as Walkie Talkie and briefly as Side Walk Talk). At 9:25pm, I said goodbye to my husband and drove down the street to a local bar where Kate said she'd be hanging out until their 11:00pm show time. As I nervously walked into the nearly empty bar, I saw Kate and her husband/bandmate, Corey, slip out the back door. I picked up my pace and headed towards the door hoping she hadn't forgotten our interview.
"Kate!" I hollered out the back, trying not to sound too desperate.
"Oh hey Stacey," Kate said as she came walking over. "I was just checking on this sign we spray painted a few minutes ago.
I looked over her shoulder and saw a large piece of black fabric with a yellow walkie talkie (I assumed, even though it looked more like a cellphone) in the center.
"Instead of changing our name again, we're just going to be known by this symbol," she joked. "You know, kind of like Prince."
"Cool, " I said laughing along.
"Let's go inside and get a beer," she said.
"Great idea," I said....(Read more)
Knitterview
Published June 2006 on HipMama.comAKrylik and PolyCotN, two busy moms who couldn't find the time to finish their knitting projects came up with a crazy, organic solution. They started Knitta, a knitting graffiti crew, to tag their neighborhood with small, easy projects like antenna covers and beer cozies. Stacey Greenberg, the creator of the zine, Fertile Ground: For People who Dig Parenting, recently interviewed AKrylik to see how sometimes in balancing motherhood, work, and art we have to listen to ourselves and be brave and know when it's time to change and refocus our energies. She found that if we can just learn to do that, we may wind up with something even more amazing that what we'd started out with....(Read more)
Interview with Marrit Ingman
Published November 2005 on Hipmama.com
Marrit Ingman's memoir on postpartum depression, Inconsolable: How I Threw My Mental Health Out with the Diapers, is on the shelves now. The book is smart, funny, and groundbreaking. She writes honestly about her struggle to effectively parent her high-needs child when all she wanted to do was drive off a highway overpass.
Stacey Greenberg, the creator of the zine Fertile Ground: For People who Dig Parenting recently talked with Marrit via email to discuss the book, talk about the current state of motherhood, and even make fun of Dr. Sears a little.(Read more)
