The MotherVerse Blog: mothering out loud

It’s time to make something up!

For all of you beautiful liars out there- Hip Mama is gonna be breaking some fresh ground and doing a Short Story Contest judged by Kerlin Richter and Ariel Gore.
First Prize is $100, your Short Story as the feature in issue 44, the Creativity issue, along with a profile and […]

My final show of the year 2008 has come and gone. All the excitement, anxiety and stress are over with, at least until the next show in early spring!  It’s been an interesting year in the art world. With the economy struggling, it’s been difficult for many artists to make a living. But […]

It’s a bit of old news, but the location of the BlogHer ‘09 Conference has been announced and is in CHICAGO. Check out all the details here.
This year’s theme is ‘In Real Life’.
I would LOVE to go! We’ll see!

update: The ad on the Motrin site has been taken down. You can still view it on You Tube.

So, everybody’s talking about the Motrin Babywearing commercial.
Crunchy Domestic Goddess posted something on it
The Motheringdotcommune boards are alive with commentary about it
There’s a group on Facebook on the subject
Then, there is the Twitter response on YouTube […]

While perusing the web, I came across Mothering Magazine’s Mothering Media, in which they present a bimonthly Mothering Webinar.
The next one focuses on affordable, natural toys and is happening December 2 at 3 p.m. Eastern. Scroll down for more info.
let’s play!: an a to z guide to natural toys
Tuesday, December 2
3 PM ET
The holidays […]

Here is so0mething that I remembered from long ago.
It used to be, when I had my first baby, that I could call my mother every time the baby made a sound and ask her what to do.  I knew my daughter would not be able to do that because I was deep into my career […]

The new MWLM issue is up on the web and out in print.

This issue features interviews with Melissa Stanton, Andi Silverman and Shari MacDonald

With

Reviews of The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, National Security Mom and The Wednesday Sisters

Plus

All of the regular columns, poetry and resources!

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     I am a little late in answering this but I read with intrest the piece that FROGMAma wrote in Sept.  I tried to answer it but I did something wrong so that it did not post on the blog. 
      I met a girl about last month and she was about 18 years old.  She […]

     Well I guess that I suceeded with Tamag after all.  I thought that she didn’t like me but she was in the program again this year and she seemed very disappointed that she didn’t get me as a tutor.  The lady that did get her told me that she reads very well now.  She […]

Today, Sunday, my son Michael called me up and asked me out to lunch.  I wasn’t expecting it as he is always busy but I went.  His smile,(with the dimple in his cheek that he got from sticking the wrong end of a butter knife in it when he was two years old).lit up my […]