By Stacey Conner. I was a good mother then, but I'm a better mother now.
Might
By Anna Ellis. I wrote the first draft of a letter to the half-sister I've never met.
Outmanned
By Mary Widdicks. There’s just one thing missing and it would be the pink, sparkly bow on top of my already amazing family.
Dance Like You’re in Preschool
By Dina Relles. When do we start to care what other people think? How do we learn inhibition?
Break Me Off a Piece of That Kit Kat Bar
By Bethany Thies. For this realist, the last several months have felt more like a fever dream.
Theme: Break
Break. It is one of those words with a double, almost contradictory meaning (kinda’ like motherhood) I can give myself a break—a gift, a release of pressure, a bit of …
The Day I Killed the Vacuum
By Paula Danner. I can’t even express how much I dislike all vacuums.
The First Step
By Jennifer Savage. This weekend I moved a tiny desk into a large room with high ceilings, freshly refinished floors and a giant window looking down on Missoula’s downtown.
Clawing My Way to Calm
By Jennifer Pett. As I write, I am stretched out on a couch in my baby's hospital room.
The Island of the Rainbow Giraffes
By Ally Earnest. In the dark nights when the monster of pain came and grabbed her, I would grab her back and jump in our dhow and head for the Island, it was the only refuge we had.