Motherhood & Words®

"It takes courage to write about motherhood in a culture that sets women with children on the sidelines, and it takes even greater courage to give voice to the powerful emotions and fears that swirl deep beneath the surface of our daily lives..." -Kathleen Hirsch and Katrina Kenison, Mothers

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

mea culpa

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I haven’t been much of a blogger recently (as you very well know), and I’m not only sorry, I’m embarrassed. I’ ve never let myself go this ...

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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

forgetting and remembering

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I keep having dreams in which I lose things or have them stolen: credit cards, my purse, a huge backpack from a train platform. In each drea...

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Wednesday, October 8, 2008

penny wolfson on palin

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Penny Wolfson , whom I quoted in my long and controversial post , has a wonderful essay about Palin , disability and reproductive rights at ...

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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

on bladders

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I have been busy these last weeks prepping classes and teaching and prepping and teaching. I’m teaching two classes and a couple of Saturday...

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Friday, September 19, 2008

barbie: a windfall

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I spent last weekend cleaning and re-cleaning and shopping and re-shopping for parties in honor of Stella, who turned five on Saturday. Five...

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Tuesday, September 9, 2008

dialogue

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I want to thank all of you who commented on my last post. I was really scared to write about such a divisive issue on this blog because, qui...

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Thursday, September 4, 2008

a long and controversial post

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I’ ve been thinking about this post for some time. I was going to write it last January, on the 35 th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, but then...

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kate hopper: I'm a mama and writer and teacher. I've been helping mothers tell the stories they need to tell since 2006. I'm the author of Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers and Ready for Air: A Journey Through Premature Motherhood, winner of a 2014 MIPA Midwest Book Award, and co-author of Silent Running, a memoir of one family’s journey with autism and running. My writing has appeared in a number of journals, including Brevity, Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Times online and Poets & Writers. I have an MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota and I teach online, in Ashland University’s Low-residency MFA program, and at the Loft Literary Center. For more information about my work visit www.katehopper.com. Join the discussion!

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