The MotherVerse Blog: mothering out loud

I recently made the decision to relocate my daughter to the day care within the walls of the company I work for. Even though this is a great benefit for employees at A-Corp, the day care lady I am leaving behind will be greatly missed by me and my daughter and I am sad to let her go. Decisions […]

I am working on a new group of photographs featuring mothers in the nude. I want to show the beauty of a female body that has given the gift of life. Society want us to hide our post-birth bodies yet I think they are beautiful….the marks left on our bodies tell the world, look what […]

My boys are just beginning to verbalize their fears. They have, of course, been frightened before they were able to say so. Even unborn they would poke their tiny elbows into my belly when various power tools ripped through our unfinished house. And like most children, they’ve displayed their fear of abandonment in piercing screams […]

I wanted to pass on this message from the Feminist Majority Foundation,
for all the ground we have covered and for all the ground still left.
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I case you haven’t heard Al Gore’s nonprofit, The Alliance for Climate Protection, has launched the We campaign to halt global warming. The campaign’s call is for our public servants to stand up and pay attention to the global climate crises. By working to switch our power sources to renewable energy within 10 years We […]

From Kerlin Richter — the new editor of Hip Mama

The next issue [of Hip Mama] (41) is going to be all about voice. We already have a great interview with Ani Difranco, and now I want to hear your stories about your voice-
have you ever felt silenced? ever been too loud? ever heard voices in […]

Ok, I don’t do an excessive amount of product reviews on the blog but recently I was sent Cutie Pie Curlz (a leave in conditioner and detangler for kiddos) to test out on my curly haired daughter and….well… I was super impressed.

Firstly, the product was designed by a mom…as is the whole Oopsy Daisy! line. […]

I have a placenta in my freezer. It is not mine. Wrapped in several plastic bags unmarked, amidst the frozen vegetables, waffles, and bags of basil pesto it sits. Last night I tell the husband.
“We have a placenta next to the vegi’s on the bottom shelf of our freezer. Don’t thaw it out or eat […]

My interview with author (and previous contributor to MotherVerse Blog) Annie Downey, is in the new issue of hipMama. Here, we talk about her new book (!) and the subject of Identity.
Go out and buy a copy or stop by the hipMama Shop.

If I could design the perfect one-trip-up-the-stairs suit, it would look something like this:
1. Handy clothes rack harnesses to shoulders. Available in single or double tiered
2. Strung clipboard keeps reminders where you need them: by your brain
3. Flirty burp-rag bracelet means you don’t have to use your shirtsleeve to wipe away spit-up and drool
4. Playboy […]