Momologues

Growing up in a southern baptist household, sexuality was shameful- the only option was abstinence until marriage. Even though my family...

My heart still pounds and races when I think of the 22 year old me, nearly 2 decades ago who stared at the stick with the two lines...my...

My pregnancy test came back positive on my oldest child’s birthday. I was stunned. I had been successfully using an IUD for many years....

I am pro-choice. Pro every woman having a choice in how her life will continue. My mother had no choice. My mother was a beautiful,...

My husband didn’t want to have kids, and I thought I was okay with that. I had a lot of things to fill my life, and I loved him. Then...

If Led Zepplin was the soundtrack of my awakening to my own body in my late teens, a heady mix of sweat and Drakkar Noir cologne was the...

When my son was about eight months old he needed a tub and I needed a shower. He enjoyed playing in the water so I put him in his...

In a high school varsity hockey game my son in his Jr. year, was going for a puck on the boards right in front of his team's bench. He...

How to cry in secret. How to love a baby, a child in my arms like a mama monkey. How to rub feet and make tea. How to worry and fret. How...

Our toddler was potty training. Like most kids at this age, her interests in the curious sights and sounds offered from the wondrous...

I was fifteen years old, “madly in love” and thought I had met the partner who I would eventually marry. I skipped a couple of periods...

After a surprise pregnancy and 9 months getting used to the idea of my new role, I had outlined my birth “preferences”. I had always...

Everything is still so fresh and new for me with my 10 week old son. I remember before he was born I didn't completely understand the...

Grief has been an old friend to me. Since I was a young girl I’ve lost many friends and family member to an array of deaths dealings;...

On July 4th, 2022 my husband and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary. Twenty-five years ago, I was focused on finishing up a work...

I was 23 when I had an abortion. I was a senior in college and getting ready to study and travel abroad for my final semester. I was...

I had been engaged for about 6 months. I had been feeling ill for several weeks, and when I missed a second period (because who on...

We were interrupted unexpectedly and he bolted out the back door so no one would know. The phone rings. On the other end was him. He said...

It was 1969. A few months earlier a man I was on a date with had forcibly raped me. Now I was in Australia at a college friends sheep...

I had a complete hysterectomy that removed my uterus and a baby with a healthily beating heart the night before Roe v Wade was...

"I never had to grapple with a decision that would change my life one way or the other. When I found myself pregnant in a toxic ...