Our writers

The people behind The Honeycrumb

Maggie DonovanFounder & writerMaggie has written The Honeycrumb since before her oldest could walk, starting as a way to keep her own parents updated and growing into a running record of raising three kids in a 1960s ranch outside Grand Rapids. She worked in marketing for a regional grocery chain before kids, which she blames for her habit of reading every return policy before she buys anything. She writes through the parts of parenthood that don't photograph well as often as the parts that do.Petra LindqvistStaff writer, Family Finance & HomePetra worked as a bookkeeper for small businesses for almost a decade before having her first kid, and she brought the same spreadsheet habits home with her. She writes The Honeycrumb's finance and home posts, running the actual numbers on daycare, insurance, and the renovation decisions most parenting sites wave away with it depends. She still tracks her own family's budget in the same format she used for client books.Lamar EllisonStaff writer, Health & WellnessLamar is a father of two who spent a stretch of early parenthood on a first-name basis with every urgent care nurse within driving distance, which is roughly where his interest in writing about kids' health started. He writes The Honeycrumb's health and wellness posts, usually built around a specific decision his family had to make, a cold that wouldn't quit, a screen-time rule that didn't survive contact with reality. He checks what he writes against his pediatrician's actual guidance rather than the loudest opinion online.