Feral Mom, Feral Writer

...without singeing the hair off either the child’s head or one’s knuckles. You don’t notice how absurd it is (nursing while multi-tasking) ...

...though at times it is tempting to consider such an escape into the grace of a strict schedule spare of the demands of raising children an...

(which marks the gradual descent into holiday festivities that I’m struggling to keep simple enough to enjoy). Along with all the other good...

...of toilets) is the term for what happens to you when you do something for yourself that doesn’t include the kids and they’re loose somewh...

...my 5 year-old son tears past me in pursuit of his 7 year-old sister. Shortly I hear shrieking and the sound of my book hitting someone’s ...

...or removing pubic hairs from the base of the toilet, not a single member of the family needs you. But the moment you open the laptop and ...

...two paragraphs about a childhood piano teacher—(from an exercise called “Spots of Light” I found in Your Life As Story: Discovering the “...