Carolyn Ossorio, a writer, Mom and Renton resident, has a new slice of life blog called pippimamma.    

You may catch this mother of three bicycling through the streets of downtown Renton.  Her hair sticking out in different directions as she makes her rounds at the local coffee shop, thrift store, waving at her sister through her salon window or if she’s lucky, furiously writing in her notepad as her littlest one takes an afternoon snooze.

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.