Contributing Editor Tracey Gaughran-Perez also blogs at sweetney.com

Please tell me I've mentioned Baldo here before, because if I haven't, somebody best hit me upside the head with something hard and heavy repeatedly for such a ridiculous oversight. For while I rarely feel this way about any public figure, my love for Marrit of Baldo truly borders on fangirlish. Whenever I see that she's posted new content, I get all a-twitter with excitement and want to, like, call all my girlfriends just to exclaim "OH. MY. GOD. She's dreeeeamy!"

No, seriously. [cough]

Besides her most righteous blog, Marrit writes a kick-ass column for Austinmama.com called Mom & Pop Culture that has taken on everything from Neil Pollak's Alternadad bluster to the MILF phenomenon, and every time I read what she's written on any subject, I have the weird feeling that she's somehow tapped directly into my brain, and managed to beautifully articulate things that I too think and feel, but could never find the appropriate forum to write about. And that, my friends, is what we call GOOD WRITIN'!

And, in addition to all of this, she's written a book about her struggle with postpartum depression; you can (and should) read an excerpt from that here.

Oh, and have I mentioned that she's, like, so totally cute, too?! SQUEE!

Okay, okay, enough squealing. But I really can't say enough good things about the woman. GO. READ. NOW.

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Tracey Gaughran-Perez | sweetney.com