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Finding Yourself in Midlife

Still wondering what you want to be when you grow up? Me too. A little midlife humor, a few childhood memories, and permission to try something just for the joy of it.

Dolly Mama woman with curly green hair holding a cup beside the quote, “My thoughts need a makeover more than my face does.”

Overthinking Everything

I can replay a conversation, reconsider a decision, and examine something from seventeen different angles. By angle eighteen, I’m tired, confused, and no closer to an answer. Maybe we don’t need a ...

Pink-haired Dolly Mama holding a feather duster beside signs reading “I feel like I should clean the house…” and “So I am going to play with crafts until the feeling passes.”

Relaxing Shouldn’t Be This Much Work

Why is relaxing without guilt so much work? Before I can read a book or pick up a paintbrush, Judge Joey demands evidence that I’ve earned it. Apparently, happiness needs a permission slip.

Joey Heiberg

A little blurb about me and my alter ego...The Dolly Mamas.

I am an artist who produced commercials in another life.  My dad said I came out of my mom holding a crayon and chasing boys.  Still kinda true.  I've been on Oprah, my studio made the cover of Where Women Create, my cloth dolls made it into Art Doll Quarterly, I've won multiple Louie Awards (Oscars for greeting cards), the sitting metal dolly mama "Queen Bitch", was on a tv sitcom in the 2000's, my "High Maintenance" compact mirror was seen on Christie Knows Best and the dolly's and I have made an ass out of myself on QVC, HGTV, the local news and Doctor Oz.  I'm an artist who lives for her stories, which is why in 2023, I wrote my memoir, “Between Men-O-Pause and Dead.