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Our Mama-to-Mama message board is intended to connect Colorado moms who want to share tips, pose questions, vent frustrations or just make some friends. We encourage all parents to actively participate while showing respect to those with whom their views may differ. Vulgar and obscene comments will be immediately removed.

The site is moderated by the Editor, Amber Johnson. If you are a Colorado parent who blogs and would like to be included on our blogroll, please email her at . If you are interested in starting your own blog, checkout our blogging starter guide under Mama-to-Mama or a Non-Techie’s Guide to Blogging. Also, if you would like to receive our monthly newsletter that features exclusive deals and insider tips or submit a blog post to be considered for publication, please email Amber.

Each month, we spotlight a different blogger. The requirements for being selected as a “Mama Blogger of the Month” are 1) you are on our blogroll and 2) you are an active participant on Mile High Mamas.

Though in its infancy, Mile High Mamas was a finalist in the National Newspaper Association’s Digital Edge Awards (”The Edgies”) and received an Honorable Mention for Web Site Excellence from the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ).

Remember above all else, this site is about you and for you as a mother. The participants determine its tone and direction. We encourage you to log on and help us make Mile High Mamas Colorado’s most enlightening, supportive and entertaining parenting Web site.

Mama Bloggers

AMBER BOROWSKI JOHNSON
Mile High Mamas is the brainchild of Amber, a former adventure-travel writer turned adventurous-unraveling mother of two children. She attests the former birth was considerably less painful than the latter two, epidurals notwithstanding.

She is originally from Canada but spent a number of years working as a publicist for Utah’s ski and outdoor industry whilst moonlighting as a radio personality and travel writer. She relinquished her wanderlust life to marry the real love of her life five years ago.

She and her husband Jamie are outdoor aficionados and share this passion with their two children, Hurricane Hadley (age 4) and Baby Bode (age 2). Amber’s self-deprecating humor is her coping mechanism for the daily joys and mayhem of motherhood and is what has kept her sane. Well, most of the time. She consoles herself that all other lapses make for stellar blog fodder.

Amber has been blogging at Crazy Bloggin’ Canuck since 2005 and has been the recipient of numerous blogging awards, including Mother’s Day Central’s Top 100 Mom Blogs, Best of MSN and startup powerhouse Sampa’s Top 10 Mommy Blogs You Should Read. Prior to launching Mile High Mamas, she was also a regular contributor at DotMoms, cited by Time magazine as one of the 50 Coolest Websites 2005.

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AIMEE GREEBLEMONKEY
Aimee was born in Maryland but moved to Denver in 1994, after an exhaustive road trip around the country that led her and her husband-to-be Bryan to feel that Denver was the perfect mix of the big, small, fun, funky, energetic, and most importantly - friendly. They married in 1996 and finally jumped into the parenthood gig in 2002 with their one and only son Declan. Yes, that’s an Irish name that you may or may not have ever heard before but the musically inclined may know it is also Elvis Costello’s real name.

Both Aimee and Bryan are graphic designers and web developers, specializing in health education sites…the content of which tends to color all aspects of their lives. It’s good to believe in what you are building!

Aimee also has recently reached back into her past and rekindled her long-time love of photography. Primarily focusing on nature close-ups and portraiture, Aimee has been extra busy in her time away from her family and work taking tons of photographs, many of which are featured on her personal blog, Greeblemonkey. Her blog was recently nominated for a coveted Bloggie award as the blogosphere’s “best-kept secret.” Aimee also takes pottery classes for yet one more creative outlet.

Aimee, Bryan and Declan like to laugh a lot, which is reflected in her writing - and her outlook on life.

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ANNIE PAYNE
Annie Payne was born in Denver and now resides in Western Colorado. Although she is a Colorado native she has lived in California, the very exotic Venezuela (yes, she speaks Spanish) and the not-so exotic Idaho. Annie is the mother of three charming children: twin 8-year-old boys referred to as “Boy 1″ and “Boy 2,” and a 6-year-old daughter, whom she lovingly refers to as “Mini Me.” Annie has been married to her husband, “Secret Agent Man,” for ten years. Is he really CIA? Well, she could tell you but then she would have to…well, you know the rest.

Annie is passionate about her family, art, traveling, fashion, Bollywood movies and eating really good food. Annie likes to focus on the lighter side of motherhood. She believes that happy moms make happy kids and happy moms have great shoes! A life lesson she learned from her mother is to never leave the house without putting on lipstick and earrings.

When Annie is not coordinating the art program at her children’s school, managing her sons’ soccer team, or running the Sunday services for 85 children at church, she is writing. Annie has two blogs that she writes for on a daily basis: Hot Fruita Moms, a blog about life in her small Colorado town and her personal blog, Anniethology. Annie is also a regular contributor to the women’s section of Grand Junction’s largest newspaper, The Daily Sentinel.

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CATHERINE DIX
Catherine Dix was born and raised in the hot metropolis of Deming, New Mexico - emphasis on the hot. While growing up, her father tried to instill an appreciation for literature and the English language. Her mother, on the other hand, taught her that an appreciation for the written word doesn’t necessarily pay the light bill.

And so with that she went to New Mexico State University and majored in the antithesis of writing: soil science. She made a career out of generating conservation plans for farmers in Oklahoma until 1997 when she gave birth to a child that wanted nothing more in life than to be put back. Her daughter’s incessant crying scared her into becoming a stay-at-home mom for a spell, which contributed to the crazy idea that maybe she could try writing in her spare moments between the midnight and sunrise feedings.

Ten years, a divorce, a fabulous new husband, and three more babies later, her first novel Rosetta Stones is under contract and scheduled to be released in August 2008. Meanwhile, Catherine is back to writing conservation plans to pay the light bill, only now it’s in the very cold metropolis of Alamosa, Colorado. She’s also working on her second book somewhere between soccer practice and tea parties. You can find her blathering about it at On the banks of the Rio Grande.

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GRETCHEN WHITE
Gretchen was born in Denver in the early 1970s. Her first six years were spent in the suburbs, out in the middle of nowhere near Hampden and I-25. She thought the center of the universe was the big fountain at Cinderella City and that Mayor McNichols and Mayor McCheese were brothers.

Then her father got news. His job was being transfered to a place with no mall. No escalators. No fountains. No Elitches. Quite rudely she was taken from Denver to the remote desert and peach-dotted landscape of Grand Junction. It was a good thing, ultimately. She learned to love the astounding natural beauty of our state. She realized if she couldn’t be entertained by the offerings of a big city, she’d have to entertain herself. So she began to read and write and plot ways to escape. After high school graduation, she joined the tie-dyed masses at CU-Boulder, promising her friends back home she’d never, ever change. But she did.

After three years of classes like Ancient Athletics, she returned home to Grand Junction where she got a job slinging burritos and beer at a local favorite hangout. Not content to forever ask “red or green chili?” she enrolled at Mesa State College, where she met her future husband, Lee. They each earned a BA in English Literature. Shortly after graduation, they married and settled into a quiet life in the Grand Valley. Their first daughter, Aidan, was born in 1997. Their second child, a boy named Ryley, came along a mere 18 months later. Job prospects for English majors weren’t abundant in the Grand Valley, so they decided to move back to the Denver metro area in mid-1999.

Four more kids have joined the family since returning to the front range. Their names are Sam, Tommy, Joel, and Beatrix. Life with six kid