ZIBBY’S WRITING

Zibby has been freelancing for magazines, newspapers, and websites since her first article appeared in Seventeen magazine in 1993. She is a regular contributor to the Washington Post and Good Morning America and most recently has written for Slate, Moms Don’t Have Time to Write (Medium), Thrive Global, Writer’s Digest, and BookTrib!

MOST RECENT

(Sorry — this is out of date! Will update soon!!)

5/25/22: How to Move Forward: My reflections on the recent senseless violence around the country on Medium.

5/9/22: 15 new reads to add to your reading list this month on Good Morning America.

5/8/22: 15 new books to add to your reading list for June on Good Morning America.

5/4/22: Need a Mother’s Day Gift — ASAP! on Medium.

4/26/22: Get Him a Good Book! Zibby Owens’ Favorite Father’s Day Reads on Katie Couric Media.

4/20/22: 7 Books About Sustainability for Adults and Kids on Katie Couric Media.

4/11/22: New books to add to your April reading list on Good Morning America.

4/5/22: The Best Beach Reads Coming Out in Time for Summer 2022 on Katie Couric Media.

3/22/22: Help Her Library Hit the Mother Lode With These Incredible Books for Moms! on Katie Couric Media.

3/15/22: Missing Your Bestie? These Books About Female Friendship Are the Next Best Thing! on Katie Couric Media.

3/9/22: Here Are the Best Books by Celebrities Arriving This Spring on Katie Couric Media.

3/3/22: 15 March reads to get you through the month on Good Morning America.

3/2/22: NO MASKS AT SCHOOL! on Medium.

3/1/22: Zibby Owens Shares Her Favorite Short Story Collections on Katie Couric Media.

2/27/22: War and Words: Why Authors Should Keep Posting About Their Books, Especially Now on Medium.

2/22/22: Need a Little Inspiration? Try These Non-Fiction Books by Seriously Impressive Women on Katie Couric Media.

2/15/22: Essay Collections To Warm You Up This Winter on Katie Couric Media.

2/13/22: Behind Closed Doors? This Valentine’s Day, Maybe Not on Medium.

2/4/22: 15 new books to add to your February stack on Good Morning America.

2/1/22: Your Favorite Authors Share Recommendations for Romantic Reads on Katie Couric Media.

1/25/22: New and Upcoming Books About Love To Read This Valentine’s Day on Katie Couric Media.

1/23/22: How I Read More Than 400 Books a Year Using the Zibby Method on Medium.

1/18/22: Books To Cope With Life’s Craziness and Time Crunch on Katie Couric Media.

1/17/22: The Cartoon Network Hotel: A Must for Families! on Medium.

1/12/22: Music to My Eyes: Zibby Owens’ Favorite Books About Musicians on Katie Couric Media.

1/11/22: Swamped: An Ode to Email on Medium.

1/6/22: These January books can get us through anything on Good Morning America.

1/4/22: 7 Books To Help Us Reset in 2022 on Katie Couric Media.

12/24/21: Here’s What I Learned About Weight Loss and Fitness From a Team of Experts on Medium.

12/22/21: How Relentless Work Masked My Anxiety and Ultimately Hurt My Health on Medium.

12/21/21: My Favorite Poetry Books Perfect for Entering a New Year on Katie Couric Media.

12/7/21: Get a Fresh Start in 2022 with These Inspiring Reads on Katie Couric Media.

12/2/21: Consider these 12 books for your loved ones this holiday season on Good Morning America.

11/30/21: New Books By Authors You Love: Your Definitive Reading Guide to 2022 on Katie Couric Media.

11/16/21: 10 Favorite Book-to-Film Adaptations of All Time on Katie Couric Media.

11/15/21: Online Holiday Shopping May Save Time, But What Do We Lose? on Medium.

11/9/21: In Need of a Good Cry? 8 Emotional Books That Made Me Really Feel on Katie Couric Media.

11/4/21: 15 books to curl up with this November on Good Morning America.

11/2/21: Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, and Christmas Books Perfect for Gifting on Katie Couric Media.

10/28/21: Look at My Eyes, Not at My Thighs

10/27/21: Spook Yourself With These Thrilling Suspense Books This Halloween on Katie Couric Media.

10/19/21: Need to Get Away? Lose Yourself in These Escapist Reads on Katie Couric Media.

10/17/21: From Pumping to Panic — and Back

10/8/21: Finding The Friends That Fit

10/7/21: Fourteen Books to Read in October (Good Morning America)

10/5/21: Fourteen Books That Will Spice Up Your Sex Life on Katie Couric Media.

10/2/21: Insider Publishing Advice

9/29/21: My Kids Don’t Sleep:Lessons Learned in the Middle of the Night.

9/29/21: Want to Get Happier? These Books Are the Perfect Place to Start on Katie Couric Media.

9/21/21: Open Book: 10 Under-the-Radar Reads Coming Out This Fall on Katie Couric Media.

9/7/21: Dating Advice for My Teenage Son

9/2/21: Transport Yourself to Another Time with These 15 Books for September. (Good Morning America)

8/31/21: 11 Books Every Parent Should Read This Fall appeared in Katie Couric’s Wake Up Call newsletter

8/30/21: One Year Later: Covid Loss

8/28/21: Why I “Write” Anthologies

8/12/21: Would You Trade 20 Pounds for a More Successful Career?

8/11/21: Writer’s Digest : 15 Tips on How to Record an Audiobook So People will Listen

8/3/2021: 15 Books to Add to Your Summer Reading List (Good Morning America)

7/15/2021: 22 books about Manhattan jet-setters that will make you feel like one. (Washington Post.)

7/1/2021: 33 Books to Heat Up Your July (Good Morning America)

6/18/2021: Love your dog? (Of course you do!) Here are 9 new books to remind you why. (Washington Post)

6/18/2021: 30 Things I’ve Learned From My Dad (Medium)

6/3/2021: 27 Books for June (Good Morning America)

5/31/2021: Our Own Memorial This Memorial Day (Medium), this article was one of the top articles in the Love category on Medium!

5/28/2021: Moms Deserve To Read (WellWell USA)

5/28/2021: Father’s Day Gifts for Even the Hardest-to-Buy-for Dad (Slate)

5/6/2021: 30 May books to add to the stack (Good Morning America)

5/4/2021: For Mother’s Day: 11 books for moms who — more than ever — need an escape (The Washington Post)

5/3/2021: 30 Books for All the Moms in Your Life: From a Literary Mom-Podcaster Who Knows (Booktrib)

ALL ARTICLES (BY PUBLICATION)

Winter 2007 - Flower Girl

FAMILY CIRCLE

8/1/2019 - How One Busy Mom Found Time To Read

FLOURISH IN FLUX

2/15/2021 - Moms Don’t Have Time to Read

FLOWER CLUB

4/12/2020 - Quarantine Resolutions: How One Mother, Writer, Podcast Host Finds Time for Herself

“That’s the whole thing with parenting. When you’re in the thick of it, the screaming and the noise and the runny noses and the middle-of-the-night-I-need-a-snack episodes, it can feel oppressive and overwhelming. But as soon as the kids really leave, the quiet and stillness at home becomes as deafening and depressing as the chaotic cacophony was crazy-making.”

— Zibby Owens in HuffPost

GROWN & FLOWN

9/12/2019 - I Didn’t Think My Heart Could Hurt Like This

Huffington Post

1/14/2018 - Dear Apple, Parental Controls Aren't the Answer

12/30/2018 - From Suicidal to Successful: Trey Langston’s 100+ Pound Weight Loss Was Nothing Compared to His Emotional Transformation

12/25/2017 - Being Apart from My Kids on Christmas is Torture… And I Don’t Even Celebrate Christmas

12/03/2017: Traumatized By 9:00 am: How the Morning Rush Makes Moms a Mess

11/24/2017: It’s Not All Easy, Gwyneth

11/16/2017 - Sugar Addicts Unite: How to Cut Back (or Not) This Holiday Season

11/10/2017 - The New NYC American Girl Store Truly Rocks Rockefeller Center

11/05/2017 - The Importance of Family Dinners: How Can This Nightly Circus Possibly Be So Beneficial?

10/28/2017 - I Quit: To Really Assist Our Kids in Making Playdates (and Friends), We Have to Stop Being Their Personal Assistants

10/23/2017 - The Top 10 Reasons to (Really) Look Forward to Halloween

10/20/2017 - Hey Moms, Let’s Lose Weight Later

10/7/2017 - A Mother’s Right To Sanity: Starting The Movement To Just Be A Mom And Not A Family Management Exec

5/27/2015 - Packing Up the Pump (Note: Zibby ended up getting pregnant again with her fourth child soon after writing this. So much for packing it up.)

4/29/2014 - Back on Meds: How Medication Lifted One Mom Out of the Darkness

4/11/2014 - Undoing My Nails: Starting the Movement to Keep Nails Naked

4/3/2014 - My Spring Break Flight Attendant Said ‘Don’t Helicopter’

3/31/2014 - Bounty Ad is Super Offensive to Moms

3/28/2014 - Leaving My Kids for the Weekend Was Friggin’ Hard

3/26/2014 - 9 Tips That Helped Me Beat My iPhone Addiction

“If only I could lose a few pounds, I could remove the shackle of shame I felt was constantly wrapped around my neck like a Parisian woman’s scarf. I was embarrassed by the outward display of my inner mess.”

— Zibby Owens, "The Weight of It All"

Katie Couric

3/2/2021: 37 Books That Got Me Through Quarantine

KVELLER

5/29/2019 - Time Keeps On Slipping Into the Future — Especially as a Mom

5/22/2019 - My Online Yenta Chronicles: This Mom's Attempt to Find a Friend a Mensch

2/3/2019 - It's Time to Teach Our Tweens Some Super-Basic Phone Manners

11/11/2018 - A Love Letter to That Mom Friend You Don't Talk to Every Day

10/28/2018 - At a Bat Mitzvah the Night of the Pittsburgh Shooting, Celebration Mixed With Sorrow

10/25/2018 - Trick-or-Treating Gives Me Major Anxiety

9/24/2018 - No Time to Read? 11 Hacks to Change That

8/20/2018 - Apple TV Has Turned My Kids Into Monsters

7/27/2018 - 7 Hacks to Make Shabbat in the Summer Easier

6/4/2018 - How a DNA Test Made Me Feel More Jewish Than Ever

5/6/2018 - Pro Packing Tips from a Seasoned Traveler and Mom of 4

4/4/2018 - 8 Things You Have to Give Up When You Have a Lot of Kids

3/14/2018 - Seriously Moms, Let's Stop Canceling Our Plans

2/11/2018 - I Have Four Kids and None of Them Sleep Through the Night

mARIE CLAIRE

3/14/2013 - No More Tears, No More Wrinkles?

“Well, it didn’t matter that it was my third kid. It could’ve been my eighteenth kid; it was that kid’s big night and I didn’t want to let her down... I wanted to be the perfect parent to her. And, I realized, I wanted it so badly that I was willing to put myself in harm’s way to achieve it.”

— Zibby Owens, "I Risked My Life Trying to Get to Curriculum Night on Time" in Medium

MEDIUM

(SEE: MOMS DON’T HAVE TIME TO WRITE, BELOW)

4/14/2021: Robbing the Cradle in Middle Age

3/11/2021: Don’t Judge a Book By Its…Title?

1/24/2020 - In Defense of AMERICAN DIRT... and Just Being a Nice Person

9/27/2019 - I Risked My Life Getting to Curriculum Night on Time

9/6/2019 - You Found Me: How "Dear Evan Hansen" Touched This Mom

7/15/2019 - Woe is Me: One Mom's Summer Lament

6/27/2019 - School Didn't Prepare Me For Parenting

5/22/2019 - Moving On Up

5/6/2019 - Books NOT to Give Your Mom for Mother's Day

4/30/2019 - My Year of Living Podcast-ly

2/19/2019 - Awards Season Makes This Mom Feel Ancient

1/11/2019 - The Gifts of INHERITANCE: Dani Shapiro and Me

10/18/2019 - Gossip Girl Grows Up: Blake Lively and Me

8/18/2019 - Two Waze About It: Is Saving 15 Minutes Worth Hurting My Marriage?

7/4/2018 - July 4th for Moms: What I Learned About Letting Go This Independence Day

6/9/2018 - Kate Spade's Death Makes End-of-the-Year School Craziness Seem Sane

4/1/2018 - Too Lucky to Cry on Easter

3/12/2018 - How I Blew My First Celebrity “Interview” with Katie Holmes at the Num Noms Snackables Launch

3/12/2018 - 12 Steps to Planning a Fun and Successful Girls' Party

2/21/2018 - Turns Out Calories Really Are Out

“Perhaps this is my chance — our chance — for a do-over. Perhaps we can all, especially the mothers, stop competing. No more trying to get a leg up. For admission. For teams. For anything. Can all of us moms agree to just be in it together? It’s the only way we’ll get through.”

— Zibby Owens, "I Don't Want to Go Back" in Broad Street

2/11/2018 - Finding My Voice: How Writing Turned My Childhood Shyness Into a Gift (a story for kids and grown-ups)

1/1/2018 - The Big Sick: My Daughter’s Eye Infection Tau ght Me that Old-Fashioned Fun is the Best of All

12/31/2017 - Why I Hate The Red Zone: This Football Wife and Mom Just Wants to Watch the Game

11/28/2017 - 12 Steps to Hosting a Sleepover Without Jumping Out the Window

11/24/2017 - It’s Not All Easy, Gwyneth

11/13/2017 - Mommy, Can I Have That?

11/5/2017 - The Importance of Family Dinners: How Can This Nightly Circus Possibly Be So Beneficial?

MIGHTY MOMMY

4/5/2020 - Book Recommendations for Busy Moms from Podcaster Zibby Owens

MODERN BRIDE

12/30/2017 - Confessions of a Bad Guest

December 2008 - How My Life Has Changed Since I Got Engaged

MODERN LOSS

9/10/2019 - 10 Lessons I Learned from My Friend’s 9/11 Death

6/19/2019 - How a Psychic Medium Broke Through My June Gloom

MOMMY NEAREST

11/9/2018 - As a Divorced Mom, Thanksgiving Isn't the Same Without My Kids

8/30/2018 - How I Finally Got My Kids to Sleep Through the Night

10/24/2017 - I Love My Kids, But I Just Want Them to Go the F to Sleep

MOMS DON’T HAVE TIME TO WRITE

2/3/2021: How Reading Helped Me Through My Divorce

1/27/2021: Confessions of a Workaholic

1/27/2021: The Short End of the Pandemic

1/17/2021: An Insider’s Guide to Publishing

1/15/2021: Bra Shopping in Quarantine

12/30/2020: 30 Books I’m Most Excited About in 2021

12/28/2020: Eliza Starts an Uproar

NEW YORK MAGAZINE

2/16/2021: 11 Tranquilizing Tools That Get (All Four of) My Kids to Sleep

THE NEW YORK TIMES

12/15/2010 - Kicking Mom Out of Playgroup

“If I’m willing to put the rest of my life on the backburner for just a couple fleeting years to be with my munchkins, I would really like to be included in some of their extracurricular fun. How about we ditch some drop-off classes for toddlers? ”

— Zibby Owens, "Kicking Mom Out of Playgroup" in the New York Times