"Don't women with children travel?" Marybeth Bond and Pamela Michael enquire, in their book A Mother's World: Journeys of the Heart (1998), when discovering the absence of portrayals of travelling mothers. Addressing this absence, our book Travellin' Mama: Mothers, Mothering and Travel explores the multiple dimensions of motherhood and travel. Through a variety of compelling creative pieces and critical essays with a global outlook and wide-ranging historical, cultural, and national perspectives, Travellin' Mama: Mothers, Mothering and Travel examines the vital contributions made to travel writing and representations of travel by mothers. Autoethnographical approaches inform many of the pieces in this book, illustrating the significance of the personal and writing the self in re-imagining our cultural narratives and representations of travel, and the mothers who undertake it. This book is about mothers who travel, for mothers who travel with their children, and all those readers who have travelled in any capacity, with or without family.

Welcome to Mom Egg Review Vol. 12 Mom Egg Review celebrates twelve years of publishing the finest poetry, fiction, and creative prose by and about mothers and motherhood. This issue features work focusing on the paradigm shift of pregnancy and child-raising, mothers' work, mothers' bodies, partnering and going it alone, loss, caring for the ill and dying, nurturing our planet, denouncing injustice, and making art. MER 12 spotlights work on subject matter often ignored by mainstream media, but pivotal to understanding our human situation. The works are insightful, brave, cynical, tragic and funny. We take great joy in presenting the work of these talented writers and artists, both established and emerging, and pride in having published such vital work for a dozen years. We value our readers' participation in our community as we keep growing and presenting the best work by and about mothers and motherhood.

The Mom Egg, in its tenth annual issue, grapples with "The Body." The subject is viewed from diverse perspectives-body image, sexuality, bodies of loved ones, and our own, the mind-body, the body politic, bodies of work and of water. The body in crisis-reproductive issues, illness, aging. Celebration of the body, its beauty and functionality. The insights, sensitivity, wisdom, and humor of this issue are profound, moving, thrilling. The Mom Egg is an annual collection of sharp, articulate, and inventive poetry, fiction, creative prose and art by mothers about everything, and by everyone about mothers and motherhood.

From The Mom Egg, an annual collection of poetry, fiction, prose, and art by or about mothers & motherhood, an inaugural theme issue, on the subject of "Lessons." A young girl learns her mother's new husband may have some redeeming qualities after all. A grown man returns to the neighborhood of his childhood to come to grips with his mother's memory. Ex-husbands, aunties, teachers, parents, our own children and life experiences all can teach lessons to live by...or those best ignored. By turns trenchant, lyrical, savage, and funny, The Mom Egg's "Lessons" are unforgettable.

The Mom Egg is an annual collection of poetry, fiction, essays and art by and about mothers.

The Mom Egg is an annual collection of sharp, articulate, and inventive poetry, fiction, creative prose and art by mothers about everything, and by everyone about mothers and motherhood. In this year's collection, Margo Berdeshevsky's photo essay excerpt "In the Shadows of Motherhood" frames poems and stories in varying light, bright to dark. Contributors: Olga Abella MarciAmeluxen Robyn Art A.M. Baker Kelly Bargabos Margo Berdeshevsky Carol Berg Cheryl Boyce-Taylor Tammy Bradshaw Sarah Buttenwieser Rosalie Calabrese Sharon Campbell Carla Carlson Patricia Carragon Liane Kupferberg Carter Sarah Cavallaro MRB Chelko Floyd Cheung Fay Chiang Heather Davis Nicelle Davis HollyDay Sandra de Helen Wendy Levine DeVito CarolDorf Jacqueline Doyle Iris Jamahl Dunkle Jennifer Edwards A.Kay Emmert Jann Everard Eleanor Gaffney MarieGauthier Nancy Gerber Janlori Goldman Briony Gylgayton Heather Haldeman Maryanne Hannan Pauletta Hansel Lois Marie Harrod Louisa Howerow Wynne Huddleston s Suzanne Kamata Kelli Stevens Kane Donna Katzin Cheryl Keeler Christopher Kulakowski Kris Laurel Caroline LeBlanc Jan Heller Levi Elsa Mandelbaum Katie Manning Blueberry Elizabeth Morningsnow Susan Morse Rachael Lynn Nevins Ashley Nissler Eliana Osborn Carl Palmer Anika Paris Puma Perl Tess Pfeifer Barbara Rockman Kristin Roedell Rosaly Roffman Chanell Harris Ruth Lee Schwartz Peter Seidman Judith Skillman Danielle Taana Smith Golda Solomon Lydia Suarez Judy Swann Christina Thompson Tina Traster Meredith Trede Elsbeth Wofford Tyler Claudia Van Gerven Wendy Vardaman Nancy Vona Jonathan Wells LisaWilliams Rhonda Woodward Joanne G.Yoshida