About

I’ve lived in New York City since the early ‘90s. My husband and I raise our three kids here. They’re 9, 7, and 4. Most of the time we all really like it.
I started this blog five years ago (when it was called “Mother Load”) and have been writing ever since– for magazines like Parenting, Redbook, American Baby, and babytalk,and websites like CNN, Huffington Post, and Babble, among others.
I didn’t always think of myself as a writer—at least not primarily. I’m also an actor, and with a sketch comedy group I was in called Live on Tape, I wrote and performed six episodes’ worth of material in Saturday Night Live’s studios.
Those shows never aired, but from there, I worked on Broadway, off-Broadway, and as a series regular on two sitcoms: Norm (ABC) with Norm MacDonald and Daddio (NBC) with Michael Chiklis. I was on Felicity a couple of times too, and that’s the job people ask me about more than any other. (I played a student suing someone for sexual harassment. Keri Russell was really nice.) If you want to see the full list of TV and movies I’ve done, you can check it out here.

Then I had two kids in a year and a half. As you might imagine, I stopped working for a while– until I was asked to write a new one-woman show for a theater where I’d worked in the past. While my older son was in preschool nine hours a week, I went to the coffee shop and wrote Mother Load.

Six years later, I’ve performed that show well over a hundred times, in a nine-week off-Broadway run and in fifteen other cities around the country.

Getting to travel around the country and meet thousands of mothers (first for the show, now through the book and this blog)  has been my favorite part of what I do. I love learning, time and again, that what we have in common far outweighs what separates us. I love it when a group of us can come together and realize through laughter that we’re not half so bad as we think we are.

Write me: amy [at] amy wilson [dot] com
Twitter: @amywlsn