About Kim

This Kim is not the same Kim Younkin who shows up first in a Google search of the name.  Who knew?!  That Kim Younkin is a musician who lives in the U.S. Southwest and looks to have a rather tidy local and regional following. 

This Kim Younkin (Kimberly, for distinction from the guitar guy) is a writer, wife and mother of two boys who also wanted to play the guitar that now hangs on a nice hook in her upstairs cedar closet, but went to law school instead because she thought it would relieve her money worries.  Which is hilarious to her, in hindsight.  Anyway, she retired from law practice and now writes all kinds of stuff while at home with her children.  (Technically, they’re not home or awake when such writing takes place, though they are part of the creative sparks behind the words.)

Kim recently wrote a monthly parenting humor column for the print publication, Columbus Parent magazine, and her humor pieces have also been published at Imperfect Parent.com and other outlets.  Prior to her work in print she was an online columnist at MommiesMagazine.com.  Her general parenting nonfiction appears in Adams Media’s A Cup of Comfort for Mothers to Be (2006) and online.  She is currently at work on so many things she can’t keep them straight — including 16 novel ideas, 8036 unfinished short stories (her fiction can be seen in the archives of Wild Violet online literary magazine), 8 screenplays, barrels of bad poetry, reprints of some of her funniest stuff, writing contests, and errant grocery lists.