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Photo © Michael Harrison
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BOOK
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The Sheri Lynch File
INTERVIEWED BY JEFF MERRON
Sheri Lynch is one of the most popular
American women on radio. She’s heard every morning on her nationally-syndicated “Bob & Sheri” show.
She’s the author of Hello, My Name Is Mommy: The Dysfunctional Girl’s
Guide to Having, Loving (and Hopefully Not Screwing Up) a Baby, published in
2004 (St. Martin’s Griffin), and her second book, Be Happy or I’ll
Scream!: My Deranged Quest for the Perfect Husband, Family, and Life, published
in hardcover in Feb. 2006 (St. Martin’s Press), which focuses on a year
during which she tried to create the perfect family—one that would be close,
bond, and have all kinds of fun adventures. American Moms’ Jeff Merron
recently talked with Lynch about her book, her radio career, and what it’s
like to be a
famous career-woman mom with a stay-at-home husband.
JEFF MERRON: You work full time and you have a husband and three children. How
did you find the time and the energy to write Be Happy Or I’ll Scream?
SHERI LYNCH: I’m one of these busy, fidgety people. I wrote my first book
while Olivia, who’s five now, napped. At the time I was pregnant with Caramia.
I wrote my second book when Olivia was in half-day preschool and Caramia napped.
I would chart out the day and I knew that there would be about a two-hour nap
window in the afternoon. I would open my laptop and just fly while the baby was
sleeping. And I took my laptop everywhere with me. I just sort of stole the time—here,
there and everywhere.
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