The MotherVerse Blog: mothering out loud

Jessica was one of the MotherVerse workshop attendees in May. Thank you for the submission of “My name is…What?” Jessica.
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I try to resist the pull to fulfill his desires. He craves my attention, my embrace, my gaze, but I want the moment to be mine alone. I am successful only until he says my name. […]

The digital version of MotherVerse Issue #8 is available online now. Current subscribers have been notified.
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Joanna K. Dane is a writer of fiction and essays and an illustrator of limited edition art books. She lives with her husband and three children in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin.

Both Michele Corkery and Suzanne Kamata have been contributers to MotherVerse Magazine. Suzanne was also a recent guest blogger here on the MotherVerse blog. Her regular blog can be found at Gaijin Mama. Michele interviewed Suzanne specifically for MotherVerse readers and we thank her for that.
A Conversation with Suzanne Kamata, author of recently published novel […]

Ok, it may be a little late in the year for a Halloween post but Annie Donwerth Chikamatsu sent this to me on Halloween and it got overlooked so I am posting it now. Thanks Annie!
“I’m Annie Donwerth Chikamatsu. I’ve been mothering now for almost 16 years in Tokyo, Japan. Mothering and Tokyo have changed […]

I got annoyed with my oldest today. She searched in vain for a certain movie to watch, asked if I could help. I asked her what she thought I could do. If the movie’s not there it’s not there. Really, I wanted to be left in peace. I closed the door […]

The newest issue of MotherVerse Magazine, #7, is now available in digital format and the print version will be mailed next week. This issue features some great mother-writing from all over the globe, art, humor and reviews as well as a new mother related news & events section called Motherwire.
So don’t forget to grab a […]

It’s been hot where I live, and when it’s hot in October in Minnesota, you can’t help but feel like you’re on borrowed time. On National Public Radio the other weekend, I heard the incomparable writer Garrison Keillor talking about this recent summerish heat, and about how when you live in Minnesota, you always have […]

“Pregnancy and childbirth are a young woman’s sport.” I remember that comment clearly from my first OB/GYN. She made it at the culmination of a difficult pregnancy, long labor while I was being wheeled into the ER for a c-section. I was exhausted and afraid and though I still considered myself young in age at […]

Leaving home to come home.
I open the door and am struck by the smell of darkness and wet concrete. It has been over a year that I have been struggling with this depression and anxiety and the smell of the evening is the smell of that struggle in some perverted way. I make my way […]