ABOUT THIS SITE
Attack of the Redneck Mommy™ was created Feb 2006, four months after the sudden death of Tanis Miller’s youngest son, Shale. After googling the words mom and grief, Tanis stumbled onto the online world of blogging and it wasn’t long before she decided to make the big leap from lurker to author.
Her blog is a humorous and insightful look at the joys of parenting, the delights of marriage and the heartbreak of losing a child. Her blog has been featured on CNN, The Globe and Mail and in a variety of Canadian daily newspapers. Attack of the Redneck Mommy™ won the Best Canadian Blog award in the 2008 Bloggies and 2010 Bloggies.
ON THE SUBJECT OF ME
Tanis Miller always wanted to be a prom queen.
That didn’t work out for her for a variety of reasons, such as the fact she’s Canadian and they don’t have proms up in the frozen tundra, they have grads. There may have also been a small issue of living the entirety of her highschool years in the isolated industrial wing of a huge urban high school where she walked around in her slippers while carrying around a notebook and refusing to make eye contact with the general student body. The only people who knew she existed were the ones who mocked her slippers and the stoners who tried to steal them.
Since high school was a complete and utter bust, Tanis soothed her ravaged self esteem in the back seat of a farm boy’s car, only to learn soon after what the definition of a shot gun wedding really is. Tanis likes to take pride in the fact that while she may have walked down the aisle pregnant and tugging another child behind her in a wagon, at least she can proudly say her children all have the same baby daddy.
Once Tanis conquered the world of child rearing and marriage she moved on to tackle her post secondary education where she accrued some fancy papers with her name on them and a really big student loan bill. That fancy education couldn’t land her a job if her life depended on it but did prepare her for real life and the birth of her third child, who was born severely disabled.
Tanis is now a fierce advocate for children with disabilities and has no problem standing in front of 1500 people and lecturing them not to use the R-word.
Life later kicked Tanis (and her entire family) in the arse when her son died but since then they have adjusted to the mantle of grief they all wear and have moved on to adopt a special little boy after what had to be the world’s worst longest adoption attempt ever.
Nowadays, Tanis lives with her family on an acreage in the middle of Nowhereville, Alberta, Canada and spends her time trying to remember that one joy really can scatter a hundred griefs.
FURTHERMORE
Tanis not only spends her time pretending to be Erma Bombeck here on this blog, but she also appears on national television each week where she spends an embarrassing amount of time going “Ummm” on live television. Her husband couldn’t be more proud of her.
To learn more about how Tanis plans on becoming the next Barbara Walters click here.
For a full list of press, media mentions and awards accrued over the years, click here.
To follow Tanis on Twitter, click here.
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To follow Tanis on Linked In, click here.
To contact Tanis, click here.
To read about her beautiful angel boy and his story, click on Shale’s picture.
All written content ©2006-2010 Tanis Miller, Redneck Mommy™ All rights reserved.
