Momologues

Sixty-two self-identifying mothers responded to 18 text prompts. Read them here.

Mar 22

Dripping from the Water of Yesterday‘s Bath

Tonight I treated myself with a bubble bath the water filled to the tippy-top, As I lie in the tub I am drawn to the effervescent sound...

Sep 23, 2022

How Our Generational Parenting Practices Were Interrupted

I didn’t understand with my first child how much historic trauma had damaged my ability to be touched and express love with my kids. I ...

Jul 11, 2022

It was a time when abortion was legal and accessible

As a college student in the early 1980's, I married young and briefly, and had two abortions. I trusted a man who turned out not to be ...

Jul 10, 2022

It’s hard to be a mom when the word MOTHER somewhere in your psyche terrifies you

My childhood was filled with intense emotional and physical abuse. My mother was a single mom in the 80’s. My mother was mentally ill, ...

Jul 10, 2022

You never fully get the true picture of your own childhood until you parent your own child

Listen, I never liked kids before having my own. I never cared about childhood development. I never knew babies were whole humans that...

Jul 10, 2022

My mother is a grandmother now.

"My mother is a grandmother now she says to me let’s catch up so I put my book down take a deep breath say sure and she is already...

Jun 26, 2022

My body felt different immediately

Storytelling is my love-language and you'd think that I'd be able to be loud and proud over this, but as you know, or can imagine, it's...

Jun 25, 2022

I was depending on my IUD to work

I had just graduated college. 22 years old. Left my boyfriend. Had a fling. Learned I was pregnant. Not sure which guy. Fresh out of...

Jun 24, 2022

I'm so thankful for Planned Parenthood

I am so thankful for Planned Parenthood; I think I am the first generation of women who could get contraception, without parental...

Nov 1, 2021

One, Two, Three, Four, Five

Driving through Utah on our way to Zion National Park, I keep checking my phone, looking for some bars. I can’t believe that our fate is...

Dec 13, 2020

Hear you, hearing you.

We have a funny saying in our home: ‘hear you, hearing you.’ It’s the not-subtle reminder that your children will take on, and repeat,...

Dec 13, 2020

Lost and found body parts

You’d never think that motherhood would involve so much losing and finding of my kids’ body parts! Not to mention the body parts I’ve...

Dec 13, 2020

You never really get rid of that muscle memory.

I don’t usually talk about my pregnancy, birthing story, or the first two years of my son’s life. I stick to more upbeat topics. I was...

Dec 13, 2020

Momma bear and nipple stimulation

With my second child, my water broke nine days early with the full moon, so baby was not really in any mood to join us yet. But we needed...

Dec 13, 2020

My partner deserves it. I do too.

I’d done the single parent deal, and the “force it to work because we have a kid” situation. I’d made multiple attempts over the first 6...

Dec 13, 2020

I am discovering who I am, again

My nurse on the day we left the hospital: “isn’t it amazing, it’s like your heart left your body and is now in the world” she said. This...

Dec 13, 2020

They didn't push him up, they didn't sew my cervix shut

Trigger Warning: This story contains subject matter relating to death. Something felt wrong. I went to the bathroom and knew something...