15 Megabytes of Fame

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT AMY

Amy Krouse Rosenthal (hereon referred to as "BabyCakes") is the author of The Book of Eleven: An Itemized Collection of Brain Lint (Sept. 1998) and The Same Phrase Describes My Marriage and My Breasts: Before The Kids They Used To Be Such A Cute Couple (Sept. 1999), both of which you should buy many copies of.

Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Utne Reader, Parenting, Redbook, Bust, and McSweeney's, and on NPR. BabyCakes lives in Chicago with one husband, three children and a website ( http://www.mommymommy.com.)

WHAT YOU DON'T NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BABYCAKES

If she is ordering from a catalog on the phone, and the operator says "Do you have a pen and paper ready? I'm going to give you your order number now," she pretends to -but does not - write the order number down.