I got my start in freelance writing selling articles about our everyday lives as young, usually broke, parents of little girls who also moved around a lot for jobs. Writers are advised to write about what they know about. For me that was helping the girls settle into new situations (Living with Children); dining out with babies and pre-schoolers (Mothers’ Manual); getting dinner on the table every night (American Baby); and traveling with toddlers in tow (Mothers’ Manual).