I think I'm going to change the front page posts at hipmama switching to an "issue" format rather than "as stuff floats past". We're going to explore themes for a bit. The first theme I want to explore is community. From, of course, a parenting pov. What does it mean to be a part of a community? What happens when having a kid separates you from what you thought was your community? How do you build community? Where have you found new community? How about community & kids? This is a whole huge concept (I've barely touched on it here, feel free to go wild) I think would be great article fodder, so I'm looking for five to six articles to post in, say, early October on the topic.

Submissions should be sent to me (susan at hipmama dot com). Please include "for hipmama.com" in the subject line. I don't have a particular length in mind, but probably shouldn't exceed 2000 words. You can include as a word doc or in the body of the email.

I don't know, it's late -- any thing else you need to know in a submissions call? The usual stuff, I guess, we don't pay except in appreciation of our readers...