Sunday mornings, before mass, I try to experience God where I can. The attempt to experience God before mass, I realize, helps when I fail to have a spiritual experience at church, which is often. Should the music dry my already thirsty soul, should the homily fall in my expectations to be inspired to run […]
Motherhood
Imbalance Should Never Be Normalized: On Mothers, Writing, and Choosing Your Partner Parent
I’ve been thinking a lot about how much time I read and absorb the life advice from other writers. It’s soft addiction. Articles about the challenge of motherhood and writing smell like dessert, and I devour each one as if I’ll find myself in someone else’s once kept now open secrets. Who you choose to […]
Isaiah and the Gift of Today
It’s Friday and there’s no better picture to accurately depict the Friday relief and excitement than this cartoony picture of Isaiah. A few nights ago, we were playing with the different features of my Christmas gift – our new computer – and Isaiah got pretty excited over the different scenes and tones the pictures can […]
The Shhhh World of Doubtful Mamas
What is the ideal family? I took a short walk with a neighbor – a mother of two girls – and we started talking about the “reality” of motherhood. Not too far into the walk, I felt like we were using each other as priests: confessing our shortcomings as mothers, the moments that we feel […]