Estelle Erasmus

Estelle Erasmus is an award-winning journalist, author, and former magazine editor who has been published in hundreds of publications, including Marie Claire, Working Mother, Mamapedia, Vegetarian Times, Project Eve, The Broad Side, National Geographic Traveler, Weightwatchers.com, and Kveller.

She is a contributor to the Huffington Post, What the Flicka and Examiner.com, and writes about family, travel, beauty, fashion, relationships and her transformative journey raising a young daughter in midlife on her blog Musings on Motherhood & Midlife.

Estelle is co-author of Beautiful Skin: Every Woman’s Guide to Looking Her Best at Any Age (Adams Media), and has contributed to several anthologies, most recently My Other Ex: Women’s True Stories of Losing and Leaving Friends (HerStories Project). She is a 2014 National Geographic Kids Insider, a 2014 Disney Social Media Mom, a BlogHer Voice of the Year (2014 and 2012), and a Circle of Moms winner (8th place) for Best Family Blog by a Mom. Estelle has spoken about publishing at B.I.G., iRetreat14, ASJA and the Folio Conference. A past president of the Board of Directors of Mothers & More, Estelle is a member of Mother & More’s advisory council and was recently invited to join the board of Bloganthropy. She was a reader of her original essay “And She Danced” at the inaugural 2012 production of Listen to Your Mother in New York City.

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For my dad’s 75th birthday a few years ago, the family celebrated by going away to a hotel in Pennsylvania for a weekend filled with fun, food, family and…did I mention food? We thought that a great way to stamp the event in our memory would be to videotape my mom and dad talking about …

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