While pregnant with Child No. 1, when her "Mommy senses" kicked into high gear, our resident writer ate, slept and breathed all things mom, dad and baby.

   More children came – three more, to be exact. And it was only a matter of time before Felicia Pinkney's two passions, parenting and writing, merged. Thus, that became her "beat."

   Felicia is a journalist by trade, having worked for the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, The Dallas Morning News, Arlington Morning News (TX) and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

   She also dabbled in copywriting at J.C. Penney's corporate headquarters in Plano, Texas.   

   Her column about stay-at-home parenting appears monthly in the Star-Telegram  and on themombeat.com.