Mothering

Mother Flowing

Monday, March 21, 2011
By Blythe
Mother Flowing

From the moment a child is conceived it changes you. It changes you. Who you once called “you” you now call “mother.” »

The Mother-Hood: Queen Vs. Martyr

Friday, March 18, 2011
By Bunmi
The Mother-Hood: Queen Vs. Martyr

To mothers, one day consists of several mini days. By 10:30am, we've already lived one of them. The early morning: first milk, first meal, first diaper/clothing change, first tears, first sibling scuffle, first laughs, first enormous mess to clean up...we live lifetimes within lifetimes. »

Birth Stories

Monday, December 20, 2010
By Bunmi
Birth Stories

Every mother knows that her birth story continually evolves as time passes. I wrote down both of my children's birth stories from my perspective right after they were born and keep rewriting them in my mind & heart. »

A Poem to Make You Smile by Erika Allen

Thursday, September 23, 2010
By Erika Beseda-Allen
A Poem to Make You Smile by Erika Allen

so the girl cub really likes to take off her clothes she is almost 3 she does this all. the. time. »

On Motherhood and Faith

Wednesday, August 18, 2010
By Erika Beseda-Allen
On Motherhood and Faith

On a completely primal level, I find myself, in a very real sense, worshiping though my children, with the very act of mothering. »

Moonlight Gifts

Sunday, December 6, 2009
By Kristin Prior
Moonlight Gifts

In the eleven years I have known my husband he has never seen me cry. Well actually there was one time my eyes welled up for him on our first year wedding anniversary when to my elation he gave us Lakers play-off tickets. But I can’t recall a single time I’ve ever cried... »

Mother

Tuesday, December 1, 2009
By Blythe
Mother

I crave my son as night craves the day. He brings forth in every way, every single piece of my soul, seeping out around me as I go forth in the world forever changed by his love, forever molded by his essence and forever grounded by his being. He changed me. Not for the... »

Breathe

Friday, November 20, 2009
By Marlha
Breathe

Mama . . . Means so much in so few syllables. It never ends, the job description just keeps on going and going and going. The wonderful thing about it is that you keep on finding new wonderful, powerful layers of yourself. »

Earth Mother

Tuesday, October 20, 2009
By Bunmi
Earth Mother

Earth Mother, star mother, You who are called by a thousand names, May all remember We are cells in your body »

Symphony

Thursday, October 15, 2009
By Angela Williams
Symphony

Music has always been a huge part of my life, and since the earliest days I can remember, my creative energy has found expression through singing and songwriting. »

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What My Baby Teaches Me

By Angela Williams

I awoke the other morning with a heart so heavy, it felt like a brick pinning down my body and rendering me immobile.  The... »

Peeing in Groups

By Bunmi

All for one and one for all everybody march to the bathroom stall We talk about the boy we talk about the men borrow the lipstick sharpen the eyebrow... »

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