Mommybloggers: So, Meghan - you've decided to leave Mommybloggers to concentrate on other projects - tell us what you've got in the works:

Meghan: I am playing around with some screenplay ideas, and have a few pages written. It’s slow going though. My biggest project is a fetus, which is fully in the works, and seems to be sucking all my creative brain-power. So far copious amounts of food haven’t helped, but I keep trying. I try to write things that don’t make me cringe or roll my eyes.

Mommybloggers: How do you feel you've changed as a writer since you began blogging?

Meghan: I started out with a lot of fun, off-the-cuff stuff, like “yeah my baby wears a helmet, you got a problem with that?” and of course, prison slang mommyblogger, which I really want to get back to. I love letting one aspect of my persona (particularly the irreverent parts) just take over.

I worked out a few childhood issues in “Dear Mrs. Bevans”. I had to emphasize to my whole family that I wrote that IN THE VOICE OF A FIFTH GRADER!!!

When my husband gave my website address to some of my in-laws, I started self-censoring a bit. Which I struggle with, because the best stuff is the most raw and honest, even if it’s not rated G, or nice for that matter. But I am not comfortable exposing the freakier parts of myself to the world, and I don’t want to hurt people’s feelings. I have been afraid to hit “publish” on most of my best pieces.

Then I got into some pretty cool essays where I sounded off about whatever bee was in my bonnet “good enough mother” and some of the darker aspects of motherhood “letting the cat out of the bag”. I feel most proud of that kind of work, because I think those insights and admissions help other women who struggle with things like post partum depression, and the pain of feeling like an attachment parenting flunkee. The responses I got to those essays were pretty profound. It is so important for women to know they are not alone, because motherhood can be extremely isolating.

Mommybloggers: How do you think the mommyblogging world has changed since BlogHer 2005?

Meghan: There are a lot more bloggers out there. Every time I think Mommyblogging has jumped the shark, I read something fantastic and realize that it’s going strong.

I see it as a phenomenon that fills a need for open communication among women who at times are pitted against each-other in the media (The mommy wars, cocktail playdates, whathaveyou). Some days it seems like we are just set up to act like some kind of parenting Gestapo, to talk smack and judge other people parenting styles, lifestyles, choices. That kind of thing just makes me tired. It comes from a deep-rooted place of insecurity and it’s a symptom of a greater problem based in American society’s gross lack of institutional or cultural support for mothers. And the judging nonsense is of ZERO benefit to anyone. The media coverage just feeds the beast of the holier than though, and they are fat enough, in my opinion. If your kids are clean, fed, hugged, and well-rested, I am not going to point fingers. Now let’s figure out how to make some of this shit less painful and difficult.

Mommybloggers: In a cage match with Jenn and Jenny, how do you think you would stack up? Who would be the last mommyblogger standing?

Meghan: Man. That’s a tough one. You are both totally badass in your own way. I have a long fuse, but when it goes, and I am over the edge to the bad place called Psycho City. I think that might give me an edge. I think after the first few punches, we would be well on our way to enjoying a cocktail and a laugh.

Mommybloggers: Give us five words that describe you.

Meghan: Thoughtful, outgoing, energetic, creative and tormented.

Mommybloggers: We know all about your Little House on the Prairie fixation, and your youthful Barbie mutilations. But we want to know more. Tell us something really amazing about your childhood.

Meghan: Amazing….. it doesn’t seem to be the most fitting adjective for my childhood. I was hit by cars twice, because I was so ADD, I couldn’t concentrate enough to look before I crossed the street. I think every elementary school teacher from the fist grade onward had my hearing tested because they thought I was deaf. Little did they know that my hearing was fine. The real problem was that they were boring.

I read a TON. I had only one pair of pants for two years. I was not a pretty child. Old ladies always thought I was a boy. “What a nice young man!” they would say. And then I would walk into traffic.

My older sister and I spent a lot of time “babysitting” our younger sisters. I was their latch-key program for a few years there. I would say I entertained them. They might say I tortured them. And disconnected and hid the phone cords so they couldn’t call for help. I told a therapist once, when I was pregnant with Maggie, that I was terrified I would be bad mother. She told me I would be a fun mother. And you know what? I am.

But I digress. My childhood was pretty fun a lot of the time. When my sisters and I weren’t grinding each-others faces into the sidewalk, we had some good times. Good times.

Mommybloggers: What are you really, truly passionate about?

Meghan: I am passionate about my family. I love each and every member. I am passionate about women’s rights. I am passionate about children’s rights. I feel passionately that girls worldwide should have the right to be free from emotional and sexual exploitation. I think the right to a free and quality education for everyone, everywhere is a necessity. These things are not currently a reality. And that bothers me to no end.

Mommybloggers: Where do you think this whole blogging thing is headed?

Meghan: I really don’t know. A lot of blogging out there confuses me. I like my little corner of the blogosphere where I get to read funny things that reveal the human side of humans. I hope that never goes away.

Mommybloggers: Talk to us about Prison Slang Mommyblogger. Is she going to make a reappearance soon?

Meghan: Oh, I am sure she will. I am fluent in prison slang.

Check back tomorrow as we re-visit one of our favorites from Meghan's archives here at Mommybloggers.com - and join us in wishing Meghan luck with all her adventures.