The MotherVerse Blog: mothering out loud

“Eat your vegetables. They’ll make you look young longer,” was what my grandmother used to say to me every time I hesitate to eat my greens.
I grew up eating yam leaves, cooked in yellow creamy coconut milk-based gravy to mask its bitterness, raw fresh herbs like pennywort leaves and four angled bean, wild fern shoots […]

Four new books have just been released or are being released very shortly which were edited by, or include, current and previous MotherVerse writers. Support these fantastic mama writers and get a great summer read by picking up a copy of their books today!
“The Stay at Home Survival Guide” by Melissa Stanton. Melissa’s story […]

I’ve never had to put my forehead on the ground or parking lot before I set foot in the United States. Growing up, my five daily prayers have always taken place in a room reserved for prayer. In Malaysia, where a little over 50% of the population are Muslim, masjids (mosques) are scattered generously everywhere, […]

Adventures in Mothering Across Cultures: To be edited by Suzanne Kamata
What happens when your child doesn’t speak your native language? Should you invite your German-American in-laws to your Diwali celebration? How can you raise a child with two cultures without fracturing his/her identity? In our increasingly global society, more and more mothers are […]

Family meals are important to me. When our blended family first blended, I wondered how long it I’d have to wait to enjoy family meals again. Children complained about the food, asked questions about future meals and commented about meals they’d rather be eating. I was surprised at how gathering around a table could create […]

The doctor called my injury “the bed incident,” which sounds far more titillating than it was.
What happened is I pinched a nerve as I was rolling over in the middle of the night. I haven’t been able to turn my head for a few days. Or bend over. Or pick up my 21-pound linebacker son.
All […]

The Madness of Mary Todd Lincoln
Jason Emerson
Southern Illinois University Press, 2007
It was featured as a review in The Women’s Review of Books this month and caught my interest immediately. I haven’t read much on Mary Todd Lincoln, especially after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. *I just wanted to add, too, her own son declared her […]

Well, here I am again. I had triple bypass surgery on April 3rd. I was told that the recovery period was 6 weeks and that I would feel like a new person afterwards. Can’t say that I do yet but I do feel so much better. I have not kept […]

Well I don’t make a habit of reviewing too many products here on the blog…but I had a chance recently to check out a really unique set of CDs for my four year old daughter and thought I should share them with you. The Indigo Dreams CD’s, Children’s Wellness Audio CDs by Lori Lite, are […]

The Green King
by Desire` Aguirre
The grass reminds me of Nik. So many shades grow at different lengths in different directions. And he is not here to grudgingly mow the lawn. When will these growths of grief get cut?
Nik was arrested a week before his 14th birthday for breaking into a car and stealing a cell […]