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Mary Catherine Starr is the author of Mama Needs a Minute, a candid, funny, all-too-relatable comic memoir about surviving motherhood.

She is an artist and graphic designer. Her popular

Instagram account at Mom Life underscore Comics explores motherhood marriage and the double

standards of parenting through funny, relatable, and sometimes maddening comics. She lives on Cape Cod,

Massachusetts with her husband, their two children, and her son's large collection of

plastic dinosaurs.

Welcome, Mary Catherine.

Thank you so much for coming on Mama Needs a Minute, a candid, funny, all-to-relatable

comic memoir about surviving motherhood.

Thank you.

Thank you for having me.

I'm excited to be here.

This is the perfect time to talk about this book and the unrealistic

expectations of modern motherhood, which you literally paint a picture of, although you illustrate a

picture of, I should say, in the book. Talk a little about what this book is about, how it came to

be, and we'll go from there yeah well the book obviously came to

be because i became a mom and very quickly learned how expectations from mothers are insane and

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