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Overview
It’s impossible to ignore how life has changed since COVID-19 spread across the world. People from all over quarantined and did their best to keep on going during the pandemic. Zibby Owens, host of the award-winning podcast MomsDon’t Have Time to Read Books and a mother of four herself, wanted to do something to help people carry on and to give them something to focus on other than the horrors of their news feeds. So she launched an online magazine called We Found Time.
Authors who had been on her podcast wrote original, brilliant essays for busy readers. Zibby organized these profound pieces into themes inspired by five things moms don’t have time to do: eat, read, work out, breathe, and have sex. Now compiled as an anthology named Moms Don’t Have Time To, these beautiful, original essays by dozens of bestselling and acclaimed authors speak to the ever-increasing demands on our time, especially during the quarantine, in a unique, literary way.
Actress Evangeline Lilly writes about the importance and impact of film. Bestselling author Rene Denfeld focuses on her relationship with food after growing up homeless. Screenwriter and author Lea Carpenter and Suzanne Falter, author, speaker, and podcast host, focus on loss. New York Times bestselling authors Chris Bohjalian and Gretchen Rubin write about the importance of reading. Others write about working out, love and sex, eating and cooking, and more. Join Zibby on her journey through the winding road of quarantine and perhaps you, too, will find time.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781510765962 |
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| Publisher: | Skyhorse |
| Publication date: | 02/16/2021 |
| Pages: | 312 |
| Sales rank: | 1,119,553 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.60(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.30(d) |
About the Author
Before the pandemic, Zibby ran a literary salon, hosted her own book fairs, and was a frequent bookstore event moderator. During the quarantine, Zibby hosted a daily Instagram Live author talk show “Z-IGTV,” a weekly live show with her husband “KZ Time,” launched an online magazine called We Found Time, and started Zibby’s Virtual Book Club.
Zibby is a regular contributor to Good MorningAmerica online and the Washington Post, and has contributed to Real Simple, Parents, Marie Claire, Redbook, and many other publications. She has appeared on CBS This Morning, the BBC, NPR’s AllThings Considered, Good Day LA, and local new outlets.
Zibby, a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Business School, currently lives in New York with her husband, Kyle, and her four children.
Table of Contents
Introduction xiii
Read
Sheltering with Ghosts Esther Amini 1
The Short Stories I Found in the Sweater Box Chris Bohjalian 4
How David Sedaris Is Helping Me Get By Alli Frank 8
Wait, Did I Kill My Book Club? Rachel Levy Lesser 11
Ten Unforgettable Mother-Daughter Relationships in Fiction Kelly McWilliams Jewell Parker Rhodes 14
Why Moms Really Join Book Clubs Ashley Prentic Norton 20
Read More Books Gretchen Rubin 24
A Technology Pioneer Shuts Down, Weekly Tiffany Shlain 28
Dystopian Fiction Is Made for This Moment Reema Zaman 31
The Books Getting Me through Quarantine Eilene Zimmerman 35
Work Out
What My Father Taught Me Elliot Ackerman 43
Rowing into Midlife, One Stroke at a Time Karen Dukess 46
Want to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others? Try Tree Pose Jan Eliasberg 50
After My Daughter Died, My Son Took Up Rock Climbing Suzanne Falter 53
I Don't Want to Work Out. I'm a Lorelai Christina Geist 57
The Retro Workout That Changed My Life Dylan Lauren 60
Breaking Up with My Kids Rachel Levy Lesser 63
I Finally Learned to Dance Like Nobody's Watching Courtney Maum 67
Racing against the Coronavirus: How Working Out Is Keeping Me Sane Zibby Owens 71
How a Failed Relationship Made Me a Runner Jill Santopolo 75
These Days, I'm Running to Stay Sane Sara Shepard 79
What Locker-Room Talk Sounds Like to Me Bonnie Tsui 84
Eat
My Mother Says No Elissa Altman 91
In Russia, Luggage Lost, Identity Found Nina Renata Aron 95
Hey, Food Network Addicts: This Is Our Time to Shine Dibs Baer 99
What the Brady Bunch Taught Me about Family Dinners Alison Cayen 103
There Are No Plans to Make, So Why Not Plan Meals? Lauren Braun Costello 107
Food Can Hurt Rene Denfeld 111
It Was Never about the Dough Sonali Dev 114
In Provence, Soothed by Goat Yogurt Phyllis Grant 118
What I Saw at Your Kid's Birthday Party Laura Hankin 121
To Papayas, With Love Courtney Maum 124
The Weight of It All Zibby Owens 128
Baking Challah to Connect Beth Ricanati, MD 133
Have Sex
Forget Date Night-Try Date Day Lisa Barr 139
Here's How Long It Takes to Have Good Sex Rachel Bertsche 143
When I Got Coronavirus, My Husband Became My Wife Karma Brown 146
Your Orgasm Could Save Your Marriage V. C. Chickering 150
Yes, But Not Now William Dameron 153
How to Have Sex with a Germaphobe Claire Gibson 157
What My Mother Taught Me about Sex Caitlin Mullen 161
Don't Crush My Butterflies Zibby Owens 165
Now's Not the Time Wendy Walker 169
Breathe
Moms Don't Have Time to Cry Liz Astrof 175
The Life-Changing Magic of Letting Go Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg 179
My Mother and Me: An Unrequited Love Story Deborah Burns 183
White Noise Lea Carpenter 187
In Vietnam, a Glimpse of a New Life Georgia Clark 191
This Little Sprout of Mine Donna Hemans 195
In Japan, a Mother and Son Find New Balance Janice Kaplan 199
Lessons from My Origami Failures Nicole C. Kear 203
Awake: 3:01 a.m. John Kenney 207
Why I'm Glad No One's Driving Right Now-Including Me Sally Koslow 209
Growing Up, Every Day Was Father's Day Maya Shanbhag Lang 212
Moms Don't Have Time for the Movies Evangeline Lilly 215
Kyle and Zibby: Stepfather, Step Right Up Zibby Owens 222
Next Steps: A Perfectionist Tackles the Unknown Mary Laura Philpott 228
Does My Daughter Miss Her Babysitter Too Much? Julie Satow 231
Author Features
At home with: Compiled by Carolyn Murnick Janelle Brown Dan Peres Lauren Mechling Rochelle Weinstein 237
Postcard from the past: Compiled by Carolyn Murnick Megan Angelo Alice Berman Casey Schwartz Teresa Sorkin 241
Afterword & Acknowledgments 244
About the Editor 264