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Carolyn Ossorio has a can-do attitude that is infectious and endearing. She writes about cookin’ and day trippin’ in her bi-weekly column for the Renton Reporter as well as regularly blogs for the Huffington Post about how to live a simple life in the city with four children.

Carolyn also is at work writing a “cooking with kids” cookbook that features recipes contributed by celebrity chefs Tom Douglas and Mario Batali. A portion of the proceeds will benefit a local food bank.

Carolyn calls herself pippimamma because as a skinny little kid with a face full of freckles, Pippi Longstocking’s confident smirk, and fiery-red hair wound so tight it sticks out sideways made an impression.  Pippi was unconventional and assertive.  But most of all Pippi was proof that it was okay to be different.    

In Carolyn’s daily life of motherhood, writing a young adult novel and being in her thirties, she calls upon what she calls her “Pippi-like” confidence.  That being unconventional is okay and if she believes in something, she’ll never take no for an answer…She’ll think of something, like Pippi mopping the floor wearing bristles on her boots.