Mama’s Rants starts out with a nice layout, visually simple but effective. No amazing graphics of any kind, but appealing nonetheless. It’s a three-column layout, very tidy and the links include the usual recent posts and sites plus a long list of books she enjoys/reads.
The blog boasts a very complete “about” page with excellent writing regarding her background, her family and the purpose of the blog. Anne is a mother of two, married, ex-web content writer with a degree in journalism who is very much involved with “mom” work in her community plus some writing work on the side. Although she is now a stay-at-home mom, you can tell she is the intellectually restless type, looking for outlets to express her talent both as a person and mother.
This blog is unlike other “mom” blogs in the sense that Anne posts about issues that interest her as a human being mostly. Not just the mother. There are no long digressions on what motherhood is like or rants regarding parenting issues. Anne posts from the top of head on whatever she feels the need to say, be it pictures, news articles, musings from her childhood and/or present life. You might want to call this an eclectic “mom” blog. More about the woman than the mother, or both in somewhat equal amounts.
Her entries vary in length and her writing style is intelligent, simple and direct. I especially recommend the early posts dating from March and April of 2004.
Overall, I very much appreciated the work done on her blog. You can see she’s put a lot of thought into building a nice appealing site for her own self-expression and those who wish to share it. A Mama’s Rant