Feature Articles
Single Mom Stigma, Alive and Kicking
Brain,Child Magazine, Summer, 2011
Filed in: single moms, Tracy Mayor, Brain,Child, divorce, Pew Research Center
Thank God it’s 2011, not the 1950s, and people no longer subscribe to heinously out-of-date stereotypes about single mothers. Right? Right?
Geek Love: Two-techie couples make it work
Computerworld, February 11, 2011
Filed in: geeks, techies, nerds, love
When nerds collide, true love can be twice as nice.
Armageddon mama: Parenting toward the Apocalypse
Brain,Child Magazine, Fall 2010
Filed in: Tracy Mayor, Brain,Child Magazine, Motherlode, Lisa Belkin, Armageddon Mama, Bill McKibben, Jane Roper, Fred Flintstone, George Jetson, Jane His Wife
What if we’re raising our kids to succeed in a George Jetson kind of world, but they wind up living more like Fred Flintstone?
Asperger’s, Reclassified?
Brain,Child Magazine, Spring, 2010
Filed in: aspergers, aspies, DSM, reclassify
Should the next version of the DSM keep Asperger's as a separate diagnosis, or roll it up under the autism umbrella? The question ripples painfully through the Aspie community.
Treasured Museums North of Boston
Fall, 2010
Filed in: Boston, MFA, Art of the Americas, Addison, Cape Ann, Peabody Essex, Salem, Gloucester
In Boston for the opening of the MFA's new Art of the Americas wing? Stay on the breezy, beachy North Shore and take in a trio of less-trafficked museum gems
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Essays and Funny Stuff
Thanks, Google+, for My Digital Meltdown
Salon, July 16, 2011
Google+, social media, Salon.com, digital meltdown, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, inbox catastrophes
Starting down the slippery slope of adding yet another social medium into my already overwhelmed digital life.
Gloucester Girls: What To Expect the First Year
, Nov. 17, 2008
Gloucester girls, pregnancy pact, breastfeeding, attachment parenting
New teen mother Michelle B., 17, this morning delivered another blow to the endangered “pregnancy pact” among Gloucester girls when she refused to breastfeed her infant son in the high school cafeteria.
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Technology and Business
Double Award Winner: Asperger’s and IT: Dark Secret or Open Secret?
Computerworld, April 2, 2008
computers, technology, Asperger's, autism
Winner of a 2008 FOLIO Eddie Gold Award and a 2009 Tabbie Gold Award: Asperger's Syndrome has been a part of IT for as long as there's been IT. So why aren't we doing better by the Aspies among us?
Deleting Your Digital Past—For Good
Computerworld, Nov. 17, 2008
digital footprint, Internet privacy, Computerworld
As time goes by, more of us are being tailed by some little thing out there on the Web, an awful bit that emerges when someone Googles our names, a black mark that we'd like to erase before a colleague or a prospective employer sees it.
Should You Buy an iPhone This Holiday Season?
Computerworld, Nov. 29, 2007
computers, technology, iPhone, internet, the middle ages, the way we live now
The iPhone is the Tickle Me Elmo of this year's shopping season. Should you cave in and buy one or stay strong and wait 'til later (or never)?
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I started out my work life as an editor. I still edit, and I still love it. If you’ve got something that needs a little spit and polish (or maybe some slash and burn?), drop me a line.
“As an editor, Tracy is one of the best in the business. Her attention to detail, her ability to turn mush into magic while preserving the author’s voice, sets her apart from the pack.”
Rob O’Regan, 822 Media LLC, PC Week, CMO
“I trust Tracy with our writers’ work because I know she’ll elicit the best results from them. In her hands, adequate writing becomes good and good writing becomes great.”
Stephanie Wilkinson, Editor, Brain,Child
Long ago in a galaxy far away I used to have an office job—panty hose, yearly salary reviews, cake in the conference room, the whole corporate thing. If you’d like to see my life rendered in a straight-up traditional resume format, read on.
This is my standard boilerplate “About the Author” blurb:
Tracy Mayor has published essays and articles in The Boston Globe Magazine, Boston Magazine, The Improper Bostonian, Child Magazine, Writer’s Digest, Brain,Child, Fitness, and on Salon.com. She is the recipient of a 2003 Pushcart Prize for essay. She writes frequently on business, management and technology for Computerworld, CIO Magazine, Electronic Business and many other high-tech publications and was formerly an editor at Lotus Magazine, PC Week, and Microcomputing.
Other than that, you don’t need to read too far into my essays to figure out I’m a white het mom who lives north of Boston with two sons and one husband. Also we have a crazy-ass dog, though that situation has not yet been addressed in print. If you have any tips on how to handle a beagle mix, I’m all ears.
