Project Mom

About the Book

Project Mom is a collection of the remembrances-good and bad, funny and sad-of 26 women and 1 man about life with mother. The writers vary in background, education, family situation, geographic region, age (9–90), and so many other factors. Yet somehow, in telling sometimes widely different stories about the women who raised them, these writers have tapped into the universal elements of motherhood, things like patience, dedication, love, strength, happiness, responsibility, tradition, dignity, faith, and, most of all, sacrifice. The editors were handed these tremendous life touchstones, a patchwork of memories for a verbal quilt. Hopefully it will inspire you, the reader, to stitch your mother's story into this quilt. To that end, we leave some blank pages at the end of the book for you to enter your mother's story as the last essay of Project Mom.

About the Author

Born in New York City, Constance Wilder-Wokoun now resides in Hamilton Square, NJ with her husband. At present, she teaches English at SciCore Academy in West Windsor, NJ. She has been involved in the creative arts for 40 years, both in the theatre and as a writer. She is a published author with ?Frankenstein?The Epilogue? in the New Jersey Teachers of English Literary Journal and with her first novel The Tale Not Told. She is also a mother of two.

Ken Britschge currently works as a Research Analyst for a national college guide publisher. He is an aspiring screenwriter with several individual poems and one song to his publishing credits. He has been involved in theater for nearly twenty years and spends much of his free time writing screenplays, plays, and various stories, as well as celebrating all things Star Wars. Born and raised in Trenton, NJ, he continues to live there with his wife of 15 years. While not a mother himself, Ken had one who passed away in 1999.