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Entrances, Essays & Expressions
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.
My mother was very carefully trying not to say anything about the situation. She was being good. She couldn't have not noticed the color scheme--the fluid had tinges of brown, the baby's first signs of stress. Even so, it was mostly water. We paced the apartment, squatting, me saying, fuck, Jesus. Wow, did it feel great to curse at Jesus, like why didn't you warn me the cross sucked this badly?
Read MoreWeighed down by all the shitty diapers you've changed in the accumulating months of your child's life? Repurpose them with me for the sake of justice and peace. Here's an essay exploring how.
Read MoreAdult braces don't gain you a lot of sexy points. In fact, they suck. All the things that suck about them in childhood are multiplied by your age and amplified by your tight concept of dignity.
They point you out as in need of correction. A problem-in-process. And once you have them, you notice everyone else who has them.
There are a lot of us. We're all subtly trying to keep our lips tight to our teeth when we smile.
Read MoreI saw a perfect rainbow once, after I watched an elephant orgasm. It was sublime. I don't know if elephants notice rainbows, or do things like measure satisfaction of an orgasm. But surely if God has a highlighter, it makes those kinds of impressive marks across the sky.
Read MoreIt lay under a mound of snow against the curb. I was walking to an early morning class, an enormous travel mug of black coffee in hand. If I slipped on the ice, as I often did, bruising thighs and tailbone, I was already holding my life-line. Some people had religion but at a young age I had caffeine, the way it made me feel vaguely sophisticated, viced.
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