I’m a writer, entrepreneur, creative, artist, teacher, and mama to three kids. Born in 1993. 2001. 2015. Mama Life Zine lives at the intersection of motherhood, identity, work, learning, food, and the everyday moments that rarely make it into polished spaces.

I was born and raised in Brooklyn and moved to the Hudson Valley in 2017. That shift changed the pace of everything. More noticing. More questioning. More room for the in-between parts of life that deserve documenting too.

Professionally, I’ve worked across more than 50 industries as a marketing strategist and copywriter, helping businesses find clarity, voice, and structure. I spend a lot of time translating complexity into language that feels human. This zine is the opposite side of that work. Less strategy. More observation. More honesty.

Mama Life Zine is about the mama experience, which cannot be reduced to one role, one aesthetic, or one narrative. It holds real life. The layered version. The version where work exists alongside caregiving, creativity lives next to exhaustion, and identity keeps evolving.

I have been a mom for more than three decades, which means I have lived multiple versions of motherhood. Starting again reshaped how I think about time, energy, learning, and self. Some days feel grounded. Some days feel messy. Most days are both.

You probably will not find Pinterest-worthy photos here. You will find color, busy tables, half-finished projects, notes, experiments, food, questions, and the small details that make a life. Not performative chaos. Just real life in motion.

I am a writer who spent years writing for everything else. Client work. School. The practical things that pay the bills. After years as a non-traditional college student, including studying food systems and deep in the trenches of my 3rd journey through motherhood, I have come back to writing for myself.

This space is that promise.

Mama Life Zine is a place to document, reflect, and make meaning out of ordinary days. It is about motherhood, but also about being a person inside motherhood. Work, health, learning, creativity, food, memory, and the long process of becoming.

If you’re here, you’re probably living some version of that too.

Jemile Nesimi-Hobson