Planet Mom

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Gender Female
Occupation Freelance Writer / Columnist
Location Northeast, United States
Introduction Planet Mom, is a freelance writer and slice of life newspaper columnist whose primary aim is to unearth the vat of hilarity contained within everyday life experiences—especially those related to parenting. She offers those poor souls (who subsist at various stages of lunacy) a sanity cocktail in the form of gloriously irreverent blurbs about life with her brood. Visit her website to learn more (www.melindawentzel.com).
Favorite Movies My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Fargo, As Good as it Gets, Monsters Inc., Finding Forrester, Must Love Dogs, The Graduate, Bandits, High Fidelity, Something About Mary, Mrs. Doubtfire, The Bucket List, When Harry Met Sally, Notting Hill, Good Will Hunting, Tombstone, One Fine Day, Finding Nemo, Father of the Bride, Miss Congeniality, My Best Friend's Wedding, Brokeback Mountain, Saving Private Ryan
Favorite Music blues, rock, pop, R & B, Motown
Favorite Books I Know This Much is True, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, The Bright Side of Disaster, It's the Little Things, Living Out Loud, Harry Potter series, Where the Wild Things Are, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Matilda, The Secret Garden, I Was Told There'd Be Cake, Magical Thinking, When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Your pajamas have duckies on them. Why did you switch from choo-choos?

I guess I'd rather be pooped upon by a brood of ducks than run over by a fucking train in the dead of night.