The MotherVerse Blog: mothering out loud

Lots of people are finally turning out to vote. That is about the most exciting news since my last baby was born seven years ago. Oh, and my boy is playing in an improvisational jazz group with 6 of his buddies. He is 12 and playing Herbie Hancock and Miles Davis tunes and, […]

Santosha-
by Lilian Sarlos
God peeks out our cat’s eyes at me
Winks as I wander off key
Glares and swishes her tail
if I lose my patience
As if to say
Is that how you want to use that passion
Stalks off to find the one ray of sun
Golden velvet ears of loving hounds
Always in our hands
The big boned full throated children
Voice […]

The last month has been such a rich and blessed time that I have hardly had the heart to sit and write. Life is so full and present and flowing that to try to place even a hair of it down on the page, with these little black figures grouped against the white, feels sacrilegious. […]

Today for the third time, a miracle peeled through the misty Portland morning in my backyard. A critter we thought was a girl, turned out to be most definitely a boy: un gallo macho.
On Sunday it sounded like a bad cough. Cakaroooo Cakaroo. But we all knew and came running out of the […]

Trying to prepare myself for a year of teaching, mothering, and possibly caring for my Dad on top of that, I decided to really look out for myself and plan one thing a week to do for fun, just for me. It strikes me as fairly amusing that it has taken me until I […]

The return to school in the fall always hits our household pretty hard. In the summer I get to stay home and be a full time parent and then suddenly the kids and I have to go back to a crazy schedule. We are all fairly unique individuals who like to maintain an internal […]

Pronounced : Sheervavigadash
The weeping and feasting of it all……
In the summer of 1990 I had just returned from Europe and was on a commuter train heading out to visit a friend in Wilton Connecticut from New York City. I opened the New York Times to find an article about a wonderful book called They Have […]

We harvested 32 ears of corn in two days last week. The chickens are molting so we are not getting as many eggs in the last couple of weeks. It is so beautiful to walk out my front door and see the pole beans twisting and turning up the corn stalks, flowering, and […]

“…my Philosophy is that what you think of and plan for day by day, in spite of yourself, so to speak-you will get…Because a thing that is dreamed of in the way I mean, is already an accomplished fact.”
Captain Forrester in A Lost Lady, by Willa Cather.
Always optimistic at some level, I have named my […]