About Me

Hello! I’m Emma Carlson. I live in in San Francisco with my amazing partner and our lovely daughter. I’ve been here for ages now but just can’t quite adjust: I’m an unrepentant New Yorker and born-and-bred east coaster. Plus, it’s weird here.

And by “here”, I mean San Francisco. Also adulthood. And parenthood. And, while we’re talking, what’s going on the honeybees? Yeah, this whole “world around me” thing is odd and awesome. Which is what I write about: Displaced chronicles my transition from the east to the west coast, from “couple” to “with kid,” and from corporate denizen to full-time writer and mother, among other peculiarities. (I started writing here in 2004, so there’s been a lot to cover.)

Where I come from: Boston, New York, and the east coast with a stretch in Switzerland thrown in for good measure.

And before I did what I do now, I worked in magazine publishing in New York back when people made money doing that, then as an executive editor for a web site for teen girls, and then jumped to full-on strategic e-commerce consultant, leading design and development teams to build, launch, market and maintain high-traffic e-commerce and relationship management web sites. My specialty: producing and managing content for the web (naturally).

I also post over at Minimalista Mama, a resource to help new and expectant parents cut through the insanity and trim down that list of “YOU HAVE TO BUY THESE 1000 THINGS RIGHT NOW OH MY GOD!”