Melinda Roberts

Mindy Roberts is a native Chicagoan transplanted to the Silicon Valley where she lives with her three California-born children. Through a series of well-laid plans, strategic decisions, unfortunate mishaps, and wacky mistakes, she has cobbled together a cozy life for her young family.

Mindy spent twelve years as a mild-mannered nonprofit employee. In 2002, after the birth of her third child in four years, Mindy began to write about her life and children in the wee, sleepless hours. Mommy Confidential is a chronicle of her family's adventures and mishaps in a period of marital, emotional, and financial strife. No, really.

Take a woman fresh out of college, plop her down in Silicon Valley, saddle her with a mortgage, let her ride the tech boom, give her three babies in four years, slap her with the tech bust, watch vicariously as her marriage disintegrates, end her career, and hand her a computer. What do you get? Mommy Confidential, a memoir in real time.