Friday, April 27, 2007

running out of fear - mothertalk blog bonanza: fearless friday

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Sometimes, it feels as if I am hardwired for fear. When I start awake in the middle of the night, every slammed car door or clanking muffler...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

have you hugged your hygienist today?

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Yesterday afternoon Stella and I went to the dentist. Earlier in the morning, as Stella was getting dressed she said, "Mom, I don't...
Friday, April 20, 2007

escaping into O'Brien

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I’m late posting this week because my blog day was sacrificed for Pro-Choice Lobby Day at the Capitol. Stella was my proud lobbying assistan...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007

a thought from anne and a dream

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Last night I went to see Anne Lamott discuss her new book, Grace (Eventually). She was reading at Barnes and Noble in a fancy schmancy su...
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Wednesday, April 4, 2007

moonrise

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Penny Wolfson’s essay “Moonrise” ( Best American Essays 2002 ) is the only motherhood essay that I could find when I searched through two de...
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007

the reasons we love

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A couple of weeks ago, I used an excerpt of Beth Kephart ’s A Slant of Sun in class to talk about emotional distance—writing the hard stuff...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

four decades of feminist mamas

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In my class this week we read Miriam Peskowitz ’s “Cheerleader” and an excerpt of Adrienne Rich’s Of Woman Born . We’ ve now read motherhoo...
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