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Artist Residency In MotherHood-- When Is Yours?

February 09, 2018 by Sara Nolan in Heart

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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February 09, 2018 /Sara Nolan
Artist residency in motherhood, writing, Patriarchy, needs
Heart

Experiment in the Essay #13-- What is it to be a person?: #52essays2017

March 26, 2017 by Sara Nolan in Relationships, Perception

A 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.

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March 26, 2017 /Sara Nolan
questions, writing, mother, birth, swimming, water
Relationships, Perception

Experiment in the Essay #10 & 11: Naming The Baby-- #52essays2017

March 19, 2017 by Sara Nolan in Perception, Relationships, writing

I 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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March 19, 2017 /Sara Nolan
writing, names
Perception, Relationships, writing

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