Feral Mom, Feral Writer
Friday, January 30, 2009
In my writing cabin...
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...a photo of our daughter sits next to the printer. She wears a red velvet dress, holds a peach rose, each petal fringed crimson. She’s lea...
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Friday, January 23, 2009
When Elizabeth invites me to a poetry reading, I say to myself: I can handle this.
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I, mother of three, can escape for a night. But I get a headache just trying to remember the last reading I attended...ten years ago, was it...
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Saturday, January 3, 2009
My husband is my Pretentious Monitor. I’ll hand him a fresh poem...
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...and if he squinches up his face and says, “Dumb it down,” I know I’m getting stuffy. On the other hand, I can tell if he’s just using tha...
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Friday, November 28, 2008
It is possible to nurse a 2-year-old and heft a log into the wood burning stove...
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...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) ...
Friday, November 14, 2008
I am no Buddha, nor can I get me to a nunnery...
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...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...
Saturday, November 1, 2008
I feel mediocre trying to do it all this season of pumpkins...
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(which marks the gradual descent into holiday festivities that I’m struggling to keep simple enough to enjoy). Along with all the other good...
Friday, October 17, 2008
Backsplash--(while we're on the subject...
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...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...
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