Deborah Pope

 

Marilyn Nave

 BIO

BIO  

Deborah Pope
 

is a columnist and freelance writer. A stay-at-home mom, her creation – the Here A Mom, There A Momsm column – offers perspective on the dual and divergent lives moms face today.
 

In HAMTAM, Deborah and a working mom address the same topics in a side-by-side format. In 2007, the HAMTAM column appeared in Kansas City Parent. In early 2006, a Chicago based television personality featured the column in her e-Newsletter. Throughout 2006, HAMTAM also appeared in other online newsletters, as well as in the print publication Diddly News. Throughout 2005, the column ran monthly in DallasChild magazine. HAMTAM has also been published in two Los Angeles based community newspapers – Studio City Sun and Sherman Oaks Sun.
 

Deborah’s most recent freelance work has included features in Richardson Living magazine and essays in Kansas City Parent and the national publication Adoptive Families.
 

After graduating from Michigan State University, Deborah taught high school journalism in Texas. She lived in Japan for a year teaching English to children and adults, and today she continues to teach Japanese students in her home on a limited basis.
  

While working in programming at KLUV-FM Radio in Dallas, Texas, she wrote promotional copy and was a voice talent on both promos and commercials.
 

Deborah, her husband, their nine-year-old daughter, and dog reside in a suburb of Dallas, Texas.

Marilyn Nave
 

began writing letters to the editor at age nine.  Even at such a young age she was aware of her ability to strongly communicate opinions through words.
 

While attending the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM) in the early '80s, she began exploring her op-ed interests as an intern for LA WEEKLY, Los Angeles' leading alternative newsweekly.  That led to a position with the then sister publication, and now defunct, L.A. Style magazine.
  

Of her nineteen years in the workforce, Nave has spent seven in publishing and the last twelve in film post-production as a production coordinator and producer.
  

Nave's contribution to the ever popular
Here A Mom, There A Momsm column,  gives voice to her insights and perspective as a wife and mother who chooses to also work outside the home.
 

Nave lives in the Quartz Hill area of Los Angeles, California, with her husband and two young boys.