Category Archives: confident mothering
Happy belated Mother’s Day from a 2-and-a-half-year-old mom
Living things change. They adapt and grow and die. Trees leaf out, snakes molt, babies grow up into frat boys. It just happens. Aren’t you glad I picked this picture instead of one of a frat boy? So why is it I thought the moment I had a baby that I would be a (…) MORE »
I Hung One More Year on the Line . . .
I love that Paul Simon song, Have a Good Time. It starts out “Yesterday it was my birthday,” and that is true for me too. Yesterday, it was my birthday. I love getting older. I share my birthday, April 23 with Shakespeare and a whole host of lesser characters. I’m a proud Taurus born in (…) MORE »
In Media Res
I always wanted get born to be a place where participants could be unresolved without judgment, where conflictedness is our reality. I wanted it so desperately because it was and continues to be, what I need, sometimes more than breath.
The Two Percent
Nathaniel is my only child. He’s 20 months old. I had him when I was 40. For most of my life, I never planned on having children at all, then I met my husband who used to answer, “A dad,” when he was a kid and adults asked him what he wanted to be when (…) MORE »
Star of the Week
Last week was my four-year-old’s turn to be star-of-the-week at preschool. He’d been talking about this event for months. “How many weeks, Mommy? How many weeks ‘til I’m star-of-the-week?” he’d ask, all excited. But as it came time to put together some pictures for him to bring into class, he became less enthusiastic about (…) MORE »
Love Letter from You
Dear beloved one, I see you there, I feel your struggle. I know how hard you have been trying to be a good mother. As you have grown up, many conflicting messages have been presented to you by your culture about the proper way to care for children, and some of those messages have been (…) MORE »
