The MotherVerse Blog: mothering out loud

“What are you afraid of?”
“I am afraid I am going to die.”
“You are. But what are you afraid of?”
My friend’s perfunctory and almost cavalier response annoyed me but I intuitively knew he meant something else.
I had a mole removed. I am always having moles and radical freckles removed it seems. I grew up with suntan […]

My friend Anna and I had barely sat down to lunch before I moaned, “I think I hate my husband.”
(Anna is single right now. No kids. Nice shoe budget.)
I continued: “I’m tired of his dirty socks on the floor, wet towels on chairs, empty milk cartons in the fridge, dusting, vacuuming, washing bottles. He actually […]

I go to grad school two nights a week, working towards a degree in school psych. As an slightly older student (twenty-eight) and also as a mother, I’ve noticed that while I’m happy with the eclectic graduate student body, there’s still a disconnect between some of the other women and myself. I’m only about 5 […]

The day I found out I was pregnant with my oldest son, I stared long at my abdomen in the mirror. Nothing was different externally yet. But still I stared hard to see if I could see some miniscule change; an expanding, a breath, a sign that something other was taking hold and taking over. […]

As I looked down at Baby who was still sucking his way to sleep, I thought,
What happened?
I had him sleeping on his own at around 5 months for a few months until I buckled under the boredom of nursing him for an hour at a time by myself in a dim room, while hubby relaxed […]

Shana, one of MotherVerse’s guest bloggers and writers, has launched her new blog Confessions and Photos of A Mother’s Soul. The blog features writing about Shana’s life and her photography from northern Wisconsin and Minnesota. Head over and check out the what she has to offer! You can also see her photography at her Flickr […]

I’d like to pin a badge to my shirt that reads, “I rode in the passenger seat with two 15 year old drivers today”. My son and my step-daughter both got their learner’s permits from the state Division of Motor Vehicles during the past two weeks. Today I was blessed with the courageous task of […]

Life is a game where the rules change as you play.
I have recently returned to work. I am again busily involved in managing schedules so that childcare and school and work all exist in a perfect harmony.
Organization and order have usually been my strong points. I loved doing puzzles when I was a kid and […]

Robert Laughlin has announced that submissions are now being taken for the 1st Annual Micro Award, an award for previously published short fiction not over 1000 words in length. Authors and editors may each submit one story published in 2007. The submission deadline this year is September 30. Submissions may be mailed to Micro Award, […]

Vaccinations is a hot topic: Should I? When? What are the statistics? Will I regret vaccinating my kid in the long run? What about Mercury? And Aluminum? ARE THEY SAFE?
I ran across two separate articles on the subject in Brain, Child and at Mothering Magazine (Evading the Evidence, David Kirby).
From the Brain, Child essay: The […]