Monina Wagner aka Mom2Amara - Cleveland, Ohio, USA Monina is a self-proclaimed extraordinary mom, married to the wonderful part-German, part-Polish Dad2Amara. Their daughter, Amara, is an eclectic little girl who already believes that the only thing better than a new pair of shoes is a new pair at 50% off. They live in "the Grey House." But as a working mom, Monina calls a television newsroom her second home. Mom2Amara hopes to pass along the importance of Filpino values on to her daughter. This Filipina also writes on her personal blog Being Mom2Amara. You can reach her at admin@filipinamoms.net.Founder
MJ Tam - Chicago, Illinois, USA 100% Filipino at heart, but can be as American as an apple pie. A wanna-be techno geek, MJ is a work-at-home wife of 14 years, and a mom to 2 soccer lovin' little boys, and a breastmilk lovin' baby girl. Her husband is 100% Chinese (Cantonese) so their children are infused with both tradition, culture and language. While raising her firstborn in 2000, she accidentally found the joy of blogging and still to this day occupies her extra time writing in her personal blog SugarMyBowl.com and as editor of Chicagonista.comFilipina Moms Writers
Karmela - Washington DC, USA "Karmela Johnson" is actually the pseudonym of this blogger who writes action-adventure and sci-fi novels in between working as a marketing exec, a dance and martial arts instructor, and raising six-year old Science Boy and four-year old Mini-me alongside her better half, Moonshine Lad. The entire family resides a stone's throw away from our nation's capital. Ever the contrarian, look for Karmela to blog about the politics of motherhood right here on FilipinaMoms. Karmela's personal blog is A Writer By Any Other Pen.Geraly aka Mamazilla - Chicago, Illinois, USA Geraly and Shaquille O'Neal were born on the same day, same year. He was born in New Jersey with a destiny to be in the NBA.
She was born in Chicago with cystic hygroma and raised by a single Filipino parent with an extended, dysfunctional, and loving family. She is a former art student and alumnus of Columbia College Chicago, a refugee from San Francisco's multinational fashion design/garment manufacturing industry, wife to "the thin man", and stay at home mom to the "paloma" and the "porkchop" with two cats and an old, beautiful, southside Chicago house. Lately, she is the embarrassed author to her poorly edited blog, Mamazilla, and her not so great, somewhat American, unfinished novel. Everyday she struggles to maintain the balance with girlzilla, wifezilla, mamazilla and all the 'zillas inbetween.Ana aka Bonggamom - Silicon Valley, California, USA Bonggamom grew up in the Philippines and moved to Palo Alto, CA in 1994. Originally, she was determined to move back to Manila 2 or 3 years
after finishing grad school; fourteen years, one husband and three kids later, she's still here. She's a never-stay-at-home-parent to The Pea (yes, I know she's blond but she really is my daughter, I was there when she was born), 3Po and CleanBoy (no, twins don't run into the family, yes they're identical, and yes, we can tell them apart). Bonggamom enjoys blogging about being Pinay -- after all, she still craves Spam and rice for breakfast, fights the occasional urge to say "close the lights" and thinks Philippine mangoes are the best in the world. She also blogs about balancing her personal life and parenthood at Finding Bonggamom and about life in her adopted home at the Silicon Valley Moms Blog.
