About Caroline Jorgensen

Caroline Jorgensen is an over-thinking mom of two boys currently living deep in the heart of a typical Florida suburban community, just outside the city limits of Tampa. She grew up as a Foreign Service brat and spent half of her childhood in Africa. But, life got a little more conventional once she settled down in the U.S. to attend college, begin a career in college admissions, and eventually start a family of her own. In 2005, she and her husband moved their family from Boston to Florida. Instead of continuing her career in college admissions, she lost her mind and decided to stay home to corral her two sons. While home, she began her personal blog Morningside Mom where she writes about parenting, politics, and any post-worthy topic in between. After eight years at home with her children, Caroline recently stepped back into the working world as a full-time writer, blogger and social media specialist.

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Why This Tampa Democrat Welcomes the Republican National Convention to Her City

I live in Tampa, a city where a Category 1 hurricane and 50,000 Republicans are expected to arrive early next week. As a liberal-minded, suburban-living mom, these are harrowing prospects indeed. And as a Democrat generally opposed to most of the GOP’s agenda, the symbolism that this stormy little act of God pushing up the [...]

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Stop Speaking for Me

It seems all sorts of folks have been speaking on my behalf about a few things. And I am referring to myself in the general “just your average mom” kind of way.   As a typical, average mom who believes in equality, choice and, well, love (I know, sooooo feminist of me), these folks seem to [...]

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How Every Mother Can Occupy Wall Street

I recently read about a Florida mom who went to Occupy Wall Street. The New York Post got wind of her story, proceeded to write about it but also implied in part that her actions were not particularly responsible. The Daily Kos goes into detail, explaining the support she had from her community so that [...]

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This Does Nothing for Breast Cancer Prevention

There are two things you need to know about this picture. 1) It happens to be October, and so I have done a lot of recent writing about breast cancer risks and prevention. (Want to know them? Here’s what Susan G. Komen has to say.) 2) I was shopping for wine when I took this [...]

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