In 2005, Lindsay Ferrier was busy raising children in the suburbs of Nashville and experiencing all the joys and challenges that motherhood could bring. After working in television news for a number of years, she also wanted to continue to share stories with others. This time, they would be her own stories.
“I always wanted to be a writer, and had heard about these online diaries,” she says. “I thought this would be a great way to write under a pseudonym, hopefully have an audience, and find out if I was any good at it.”
Six months after starting her blog, Suburban Turmoil, Lindsay had a decent sized readership and decided to send a link to Nashville Scene. “I really wanted to write a column based on my blog. The editor called me within 30 minutes of getting the email.” She was hired and everything just took off from there. Her column was eventually transferred to the City Paper, which really expanded her audience.
Her blog and columns focused on the demands of motherhood with a humorous spin. “I wrote about things that weren't funny at the time, but later became funny in my memory,” says Lindsay. “While these everyday things may have seemed mundane, people could relate to them, and I turned them into entertainment and helped others laugh about these situations too.”
She also started a fashion and beauty blog just for fun as a companion to Suburban Turmoil. “I ended up selling that blog to Cafe Mom, which was the number one mom's website at the time, and then writing it for them.”
Lindsay was also given the opportunity to do television again, including covering the 2012 presidential election for CNN, and also traveled the world.
Today, her children are grown and she’s now living in Nashville, so she’s transitioning Suburban Turmoil into a new blog called Something Totally Different, to correspond with her new chapter in life. “Rather than the whole negative empty nest thing, this is going to be about how we get to think about ourselves again for a change.”
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“While these everyday things may have seemed mundane, people could relate to them, and I turned them into entertainment."