Artist Residency In MotherHood-- When Is Yours?
Artist Residency In Motherhood gave me not just time to write, but time to Be a Writer Mother or, as Cheryl Strayed encourages, to "Write Like A MotherFucker."
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Writer. Educator. Birth Doula. Lactation & Infant Feeding Specialist. Birth Story Facilitator. Editor. Mother. Stepmother. Community-Builder. I believe Life presents its curriculum to us. Together, we can learn and do hard, incredible things.
Artist Residency In Motherhood gave me not just time to write, but time to Be a Writer Mother or, as Cheryl Strayed encourages, to "Write Like A MotherFucker."
Read MoreA newborn is an animal dressed up and treated specially. That's it. As close to the kingdom as we get, but then we walk away backward with blindfold on tripping over our own feet. We sense we are losing something primary but we don't know what.
Read MoreI perfected a kind of beatific, Mother-Mary smile to beam at them, like I was trying to remember exactly what sex with God had been like, a bit distracted from the pedestrian world and its nominations. The kind of smile that is holy-but-weird enough that the original question gets deflected. So that when I said eventually, "We don't have one yet, for a boy, if it's a boy...." it didn't even sound all that bad or bothersome.
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