Hi, we're Cooper and Emily

We've been friends and worked together, on and off, for the last 20 years. We live in separate cities, Pittsburgh, PA and Larchmont, NY, have six kids between us, and over the last three years, we've shared a blog and now this web site.

About Us:

1961 Emily Born

1966 Cooper Born

60's-70's Emily grew up in Baltimore with four brothers

60's-80's Cooper grew up in Pittsburgh with one sister

1979 Emily went to Kenyon College

1984 Cooper went to Kenyon College (first of several coincidences)

1984 Emily started doing time in windowless DC public affairs firm, won "most billable hours" award three years in a row, never left the office

1988 Cooper joined exact same company, came in second for most billable hours, never left the office

Not doing that again

1992 Emily moved to NYC, had some cool jobs

1992 Cooper moved to NYC, had some cool jobs

1995 Emily got married to Andy

1995 Cooper got married to Rick

1995 Emily started new public affairs company (with plenty of windows)

1995 Cooper joined the company, and it was awesome

1996 Emily started fertility treatments

1997-2004 Cooper had four babies, got a dog

1998 Emily co-wrote the book Living With the End in Mind with her best friend Erin Kramp, which Oprah and ABC News 20/20 loved

1998-1999 Emily lost Erin, her mother-in-law and stepfather to cancer.

2000 Cooper moved back to Pittsburgh and began to write for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

2000-2002 Emily had two babies, and the dog adjusted

2003 Emily and Cooper started writing together

2004 Started a blog together, fell in love with the moms online

2005 Launched the Been There Clearinghouse (one of the most personally important, moving things either of us had ever been a part of) in response to Hurricane Katrina, won Best of Blogs Award for Most Inspirational Blog of the Year

2006-2007 Found our calling. After witnessing how women online really are changing the world, joined the MomsRising.org executive committee; became advisors to NewAssignment.net; and took the lead on BlogHers Act, BlogHer.org's year-long project to make a difference on one global cause

And we spent a year and a half building the world's coolest website for mothers, The MotherHood.com.

We're really proud of it and are so glad you're here.