Moms Don't Have Time to Have Kids: A Timeless Anthology

Zibby Owens, host of the award-winning podcast Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books and a mother of four herself, created an online magazine in 2020 called We Found Time to help those struggling and stuck at home. Authors from all walks of life contributed to the themes of eating, reading, working out, breathing, and having sex, and the magazine eventually evolved into Moms Don't Have Time To: A Quarantine Anthology.

But Zibby recognized that there are so many more things that moms don't have time do, which are now included in Moms Don't Have Time to Have Kids: A Timeless Anthology. Zibby has curated five new categories of things moms don't have time to do: sleep, get sick, write, lose weight, and see friends.

Essayists include: Aimee Agresti, Esther Amini, Chandler Baker, Adrienne Bankert, Andrea Buchanan, Terri Cheney, Jeanine Cummins, Stephanie Danler, KJ Dell'Antonia, Lydia Fenet, Michael Frank, Elyssa Friedland, Melissa Gould, Nicola Harrison, Vashti Harrison, Kristy Harvey, Sophie Heawood, Joanna Hershon, Angela Himsel, Richie Jackson, Shelli Johannes, Lily King, Jean Kwok, Heather Land, Brooke Adams Law, Caroline Leavitt, Jenny Lee, Shannon Lee, Elizabeth Lesser, Gigi Levangie, Emily Liebert, Lynda Loigman, Abby Maslin, Sarah McColl, Jeanne McCulloch, Raakhee Mirchandani, Arden Myrin, Carla Naumburg, Rex Ogle, Camille Pagan, Elizabeth Passarella, Allison Pataki, Lindsay Powers, Susie Schnall, Sue Shapiro, Claire Bidwell Smith, Rebecca Soffer, Rev. Lydia Sohn, Laura Tremaine, Cecily Von Ziegesar, and Laura Zigman.

Too tired to think? No time to read books? Zibby Owens gets it. Award-winning podcaster of Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books and mother of four (ages six to fourteen) compiled fifty-two essays by forty-nine authors to help the rest of us feel understood, inspired, and less alone.

The authors, all previous guests on her podcast (go listen ), include fifteen New York Times bestselling authors, five national bestsellers, and twenty-nine award-winning/notable/critically-acclaimed writers. The super short essays were inspired by a few other things moms don't have time to do: sleep, get sick, write, lose weight, and see friends. Read one a week and you'll finish the whole book in a year: accomplishment

Topics range from taking care of an aging grandmother, mourning the loss of a family member, battling insomnia, wrestling with body image, coping with chronic illness, navigating writer's block, the power of women's friendship, and more juicy stuff.

You'll laugh, cry, think, and feel like you just had coffee with a close friend. If that best friend were a world-renowned author.

Contributors include: Aimee Agresti, Esther Amini, Chandler Baker, Adrienne Bankert, Andrea Buchanan, Terri Cheney, Jeanine Cummins, Stephanie Danler, KJ Dell'Antonia, Lydia Fenet, Michael Frank, Elyssa Friedland, Melissa Gould, Nicola Harrison, Kristy Woodson Harvey, Joanna Hershon, Angela Himsel, Richie Jackson, Shelli Johannes, Lily King, Jean Kwok, Heather Land, Brooke Adams Law, Caroline Leavitt, Jenny Lee, Shannon Lee, Elizabeth Lesser, Gigi Levangie, Emily Liebert, Lynda Loigman, Abby Maslin, Sarah McColl, Jeanne McCulloch, Malcolm Mitchell, Arden Myrin, Carla Naumburg, Rex Ogle, Zibby Owens, Camille Pagan, Elizabeth Passarella, Allison Pataki, Lindsay Powers, Susie Orman Schnall, Susan Shapiro, Melissa T. Shultz, Claire Bidwell Smith, Rev. Lydia Sohn, Laura Tremaine, and Cecily Von Ziegesar.