Published on April 7, 1999

www.a mom and more
Webzine celebrates being a wife, parent and friend

BY LYNN CAREY
TIMES STAFF WRITER

WHAT A CONCEPT: Moms are people, too! It’s a philosophy many people have yet to come to terms with, but one who has is Nancy Price of Walnut Creek. She actually believes that moms have interests other than making lunches, playing Candyland and learning the best ways to take out spit-up stains.

All you have to do is click on to the webzine she co-founded — www.myria.com — to find out exactly what Price thinks is important to women who happen to be moms.

And she should know. She has two small daughters and a baby boy due in July. And she frankly admits that’s she not the type of mom who can easily spend all her time playing house on the floor with the kids.

“I think it’s really important for men and women — especially moms — to continue to do things that maintain their interests,” she says recently from her home. “I don’t think they should devote their entire lives to serve one person. I think it’s important mothers have their own lives.” (more…)

At-home moms turn Net work into family affair

Monday, August 12, 2002

By Jennifer Oladipo
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

The forces behind Myria.com: Circleville resident Betsy Gartell-Judd, left, with daughter Miranda, above; and Nancy Price, of San Francisco, with her youngsters Quinn and Kieran, below.

Perhaps the best way to avoid office conflict is to just do away with the office.

In an age of concern about people becoming disconnected by increasing Internet use, one company claims separate time zones as one of its strengths.

Though Nancy Price and Betsy Gartell-Judd have never met in person, they run a 5-year-old Internet company and in June made their foray into the print medium.

Gartell-Judd of Circleville met Price — a San Francisco resident — through an e-mail list for expectant mothers. The online friendship supported them through the trimesters and they eventually gave birth on the same day.

Now the women say their company, Myria Media Inc., benefitted from the same startup conditions as their relationship.

The first site, Myria.com, turned a profit in its first year. (more…)