The Hill Country-based writer known as the Bloggess has used that knowledge to build a cult following who click to read the ongoing narrative of her disturbing-but-funny confrontations with the real world. A husband to serve as a comic foil. [...] after six frenzied years of acting out online for her niche audience, one of the biggest names in mommy blogging is making the big jump to pop culture in print. "Let's Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir)" details her upbringing in Wall, a cotton town outside of San Angelo, and her evolution into the blogging behemoth she is today. Time spent on any of Lawson's landing spots - the Bloggess; her Sexis magazine advice column; the Ill-Advised blog for Cafe Mom; or Good Mom/Bad Mom for the Houston Chronicle (blog.chron.com/goodmombadmom) - is a peek into a world where whim becomes reality as she fleeces mainstream thought on a regular basis. Writing in a voice that's part Lucille Ball and part Hunter S. Thompson, she lays out bizarre situations, peculiar reactions and somehow makes it sound sensible by the end of each piece. She suffers from rheumatoid arthritis, an anxiety disorder, depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Lawson writes about it all - bluntly and sometimes coarsely - in a style that's left thousands of computer monitors covered in coffee. Sometimes people laugh at that, but it's not an amused laugh. [...] that's why she and husband Victor packed up their daughter, now 7, and moved from Houston, where she worked in the corporate world, to the Hill Country. Lawson wanted her daughter to experience the unavoidable oddities of rural life. Even though she didn't know it back then, her time spent in West Texas served as a perfect training ground for her adult life.
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