Blog Spotlight: Dana Loesch's Mamalogues

A Blog About Life and Motherhood

Dana Loesch, the author of the popular blog, Mamalogues, is a self-described “twenty-something journalist on a permanent sabbatical from regular work.” Working from home as a freelance writer while raising two young boys and blogging daily at http://www.mamalogues.com/, she admits that this balancing act is the most challenging job she has ever undertaken. Dana describes Mamalogues as an “online soliloquy about my experiences in motherhood and life.”

What started as a simple family journal soon developed into a compelling look into the fascinating life of a devoted wife and mother. Her husband and children and others color her blog, and together they present a vivid modern-day family portrait.

What attracted me to Mamalogues was Dana’s description of her relationship with her husband, Chris. She describes Chris, who is in his thirties, as her “absolute best friend,” and together they decided “to live our dreams instead of working as peons in jobs we hated...” I immediately said to myself, “Chris sounds a lot like me.” And if that wasn’t enough, he too is “devastatingly handsome” and “has a killer backside.”

Complete with uncles, aunts, mothers and mothers-in-law, Dana’s Mamalogues truly has something for everyone. What’s more, Dana Loesch is a phenomenal writer. Her blog reads like polished prose, and just a few doses are as satisfying as any award-winning short story. Her content is fresh and the site itself is attractive, easy-to-navigate, and well-maintained. While many twenty-somethings are anxious to throw online their rants about the single life, Dana eloquently shows us another side: family life. It is all at once endearing, challenging, and fascinating.

On October 11, 2006, Dana graciously granted me an interview for Associated Content. As in her blog, she was both eloquent and blunt. After reading this interview, be sure to check out her blog, and have a glimpse at her interesting world. Here is what the author of Mamalogues had to say: