Living naturally, most of the time.
I was thrilled today to get an email blast from author Monica Murphy LeMoine that her book is now available on Amazon from Catalyst Book Press. Order your copy of Knocked Up, Knocked Down: Postcards of Miscarriage and Other Misadventures from the Brink of Parenthood today! Never one to hold back or bullshit, Monica is…
Here are some submission deadlines I want to keep track of: January 10 – Parenthood anthology – http://cityworkspress.org/submit.htmlCity Works Press seeks poetry, fiction, prose and art on motherhood and/or fatherhood for our upcoming anthology. Give us your moments of sublime joy as well your dark nights of the soul. Talk about birth, nursing, relationships, adoption,…
I’m still climbing out from the mounds of things that piled up this past week when my son missed all three days of preschool. Monday I thought was just a precaution, that going would tire him out. The cough wasn’t that bad. But apparently it was too much to take him to the Vitamin Shoppe…
When my son was just a baby three years ago, I wore him all over the Green Festival and bought him and a friend copies of the children’s book My Mom Hugs Trees by Robyn Ringgold. I think I might have even met the author and had her sign our copy (the book is upstairs,…
Today I could tell I wasn’t going to get the uninterrupted writing time I needed to work on some freelance work. We had to do some family errands, and I decided to put on my “om” necklace that carries a place for a little cotton disc on which you drop a little bit of an…
I have an alter-ego. Her name is Ms. Moo. She is our son’s bathtime towel, a black and white hooded number I got at Target going on two years ago. The other day, when my son knew he was being annoying, he asked, “What’s Ms. Moo saying?” It was like he wanted to give me…
I have a friend who thought she had an ear infection but instead was told by a D.O. that she has TMJ – jaw pain. I mentioned to her the connection between hips and the jaw but had no resources to share to back me up. I’ve heard it from numerous practitioners from dentists to…
I used to love listening to radio on the weekend. Often I’d be cleaning or doing laundry or sorting the schoolwork I had to grade while I listened to Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me, This American Life, Studio 360, sometimes From the Top. Back in my grad school days listening to WNKU (across the river…
“I’m using Yahoo Calendar!” I chirped to my husband who’d suggested it when I asked about Outlook. I’ve been a paper calendar girl this whole time — never entering the 21st century. I don’t have a Blackberry and honestly have a hard time even justifying my regular cell phone bill if I didn’t have the…
I was AWOL for a while for a decent reason, working on a big project. But then I got stymied by snow (fun, but missed childcare) and now, a child’s fever has put everything on pause. It’s eerie how quiet the house is when your toddler is sleeping the day away or staring glassy-eyed into…
“No one in my family has food allergies, so I’m not worried about starting the baby on solids in any special way.” I’ve heard lots of well-meaning mamas utter these words with a shrug. On one hand, I admire their faith that everything will work out okay. Optimism and hope can go a long way….
A little over a year ago, when my son was just a few months old, I started looking for a writing community that would accommodate my new life as a mom. When I didn’t find any writing groups for moms, I posted on a few local email lists and boards to start one. Within a…