I’m working on teaching my three-year old that she doesn’t have to be a princess to be wonderful and that just because the big girls at the park don’t listen to their mothers, that doesn’t mean that she shouldn’t listen to me. I’m teaching her, now, about difference and through that, I’m learning about difference [...]
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In sorting through their baby and toddler clothes the other day, and in putting them away, in boxes I purchased, I was reminded of writing. I was reminded how, through writing, we’re given the opportunity to sort through things, to put things where we think they should belong, and uncover things, things that have since [...]
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When I started motherhood, I had this thing in my head that the most important work I needed to do in a day was the work that didn’t involve my children. It was my writing that was important. It was that, not the hours spent with them, I thought, that I wanted to speak for [...]
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I often do think of my childhood and my mother in mothering my own children. I am reminded, at times, of the good times, of trips to the park, of a mother who had perfected a French accent to humor us during bath times, and of mud pies made with southern dirt in the back [...]
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When I wrote “Walk slowly in motherhood,” I was inspired by remembering that opening anecdote and the thought that I had finally figured out how to be a mother to two children. You could say that I was in a moment of bliss when I hit “publish.” And I felt that bliss throughout that day [...]
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