About Me

This is Apt. 11D, and I'm Laura McKenna. I’m a former political science professor who is raising two kids in suburban New Jersey, reading a lot of books, and plotting the next adventure.

I've been blogging for seven years. Here's my old blog. Over the years, this blog has swung back and forth between mommyblogging and political blogging. I’ve come to embrace the chaos and now blog about both mud pits AND Obama.

Politics is clearly a passion of mine. Education policy is one of my expertise. I wrote my dissertation on the politics of school vouchers. I love public policy, feminism, and media politics. Work-life policy has been a passion of mine and has been a long time theme of this blog.

Adventures with Jo and E is pretty much traditional mommyblogging -- I blog about stuff I do with my kids. Parenting has turned out to be more fun and more work than I could have ever imagined. A subplot in this story has been my youngest son’s neurological differences -- Diability Daze.

Lifestyle is Home, Food and Health, Fashion, Travel. I did a series on renovating our old house.

I have written a lot about technology. I'm generally an early adopter and lover of new gadgets. I wrote a post on how blogging has changed in the past six years. This is, by far, the post popular thing that I've written. Honestly, I wrote it while the kids watched a 30-minute episode of Chowder. I wish I had read it over before I hit the publish button. Way too many mixed metaphors in there.

The full archives are here.