As much as I'd like to have a playdate with Kate Bush -- and if anyone can hook me up with Ms Bush, I'll get you a pony --- my playdate this week is with Dawn Friedman at This Woman's Work. 

Dawn blogs about mothering, writing and the intersection between the two. But that's not why I want to go on a date with her. No, I want to hang out with Dawn because she has an uncanny skill at handling passionate (and downright irate) commenters.

She's had plenty of practice lately, given that she's been blogging about the open adoption of her second child. Friedman writes with grace and spunk -- and fo that she deserves an afternoon of chit-chat and cookies.

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