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, July 27, 2011

mothers and daughters

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If you’ve been reading my posts in the last few weeks, you know that as I sat next to my grandpa the week he was dying, I was reading Rae M...
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

celebrating spencer

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Saturday we held the service for my grandpa, and it was lovely. There were tears, of course, but there was also lots of laughter as peopl...
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Thursday, July 21, 2011

on being a writer

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I haven’t had much time to sit down and really write these last weeks. Between my grandpa dying, a trip up north, a non-writing related f...
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Friday, July 15, 2011

trees for faith's lodge

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Faith's Lodge , where I hold my annual writing retreat for mothers, was devastated in a storm that hit Western Wisconsin on July 1st. ...
Wednesday, July 6, 2011

ready

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Thank you all so much for your thoughts and prayers over the last couple of weeks. I know all of you have experienced the deaths of loved...
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Thursday, June 30, 2011

1/19/1909 – 6/30/2011

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My grandpa, Spencer Nelson, died early this morning. In the coming days and weeks, I’m sure I’ll write more about my last days with him,...
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Monday, June 27, 2011

some thoughts on dying

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Warning: This is long and tangential. It’s the only way I can write it. On Thursday afternoon, my mom was helping my grandpa walk to the do...
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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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