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Call for Submissions: Your MOPS Story
Moms are a tribe of women brought together with the goal of loving and nurturing the next generation. At MOPS, our goal is to crea...
Easy Shibori Napkins
Easy Shibori Napkins
Shibori is a Japanese dyeing method that includes folding, twisting or bunching and binding clot...
From the Heart
The steady rhythm of your heart is wholly unique to you, yet the even cadence of each beat is similar to every other heart. Otnara...
How Having Social Anxiety Has Shaped Me as a Mom
Social Anxiety. That’s what the therapist called it as I sat across from her on the mahogany leather couch. Her office was devised to look like a living room to make me feel at home, but all I could think was, “I wouldn’t be here if I was normal.” The list of my oddities lay like the stacks of magazines recklessly piled for bored fingers to flip through at the doctor’s office: No friends, no one calls, head down, ignores people, anxiety attacks
Why Being Married to a Husband With a Porn Problem Is Incredibly Painful
There were six of us in the room, our chairs in a circle so that we could see one another fully. The woman across from me was in ...
The Milestones No Mom Talks About
At your baby shower someone gave you a beautiful, hand-illustrated baby book in which you have diligently recorded each of your ch...
Body Image in the Marriage Bed
Buckle up, I have quite a soap box with this one! Since we were little girls we have been marinating in poisonous messages about o...
I Pulled a Tooth Today
I pulled a tooth today. Her tooth. Small, opaque and worn-down at the edges. Just an ordinary little tooth. Nothing unusual in thi...
When a Milestone Birthday Is Hard
Some friends a few years my junior recently hit milestone birthdays. You know the ones. They end in a zero.
And with each frien...
4 Ways to Make the First Year of Kindergarten a Success
If your little bird is leaving the nest for the first time this school year, you might both be a tad nervous. Kindergarten is a lo...
When moms are resourced, when moms are elevated, when moms are educated, when moms are empowered to do what they are meant to do in the world, everyone is better because of it.