Hermione Wilds Writes·Aug 1Member-onlyRestless, Breast less, less breast, breast lust, just trust the thrust of this breast blog and use your breast as you mustA story about breast feeding — I have been thinking lately about what I really want to share with the reading public. As I said once before, I used to dream of having a column when I was in my twenties and thirties and an avid reader of ‘She’ magazine and read Vanessa Feltz, not Vanessa…Mothering5 min read
Erin Schaden·Jul 13Buck Moon Rising…I started off this morning writing about this other topic. I got almost done and decided I really didn’t want to talk about that today. Too negative and I am feeling down anyway. So I just stopped, once upon a time I wouldn’t have been able to do that. I…Mothering3 min read
Erin Schaden·Jul 1Deer God…Well here I am again. On a ferry, in Alaska, leaving my son behind…again. It feels like too much to ask of me, his mother. I have done so much of this over the last year, all in an effort to save him, from himself. I am not sure this…Mothering7 min read
Erin Schaden·Jun 30Coffee and Other Life Disasters…So we arrived last night in Ketchikan. It was lovely and cool and the clouds were putting on a lovely evening sunset show. The bald eagles were feasting on salmon and I got to watch the young birds hunt and fish. It was amazing. I always feel somewhat high when…Mothering10 min read
Stella Lyn Norris·Jun 28Member-onlyAn Extra Place At The TableMy son had his 25th birthday the other day, and we didn’t even speak. We’ve been in an “off phase” lately, which takes the last shards of my broken mother-heart and runs them right through the grinder. Though, I’ve thought before I had run out of road, only to discover…Mothering7 min read
Erin Schaden·Jun 29Heartbreak…Again.I am so grateful he came home last night. I was so worried that his deceptive skills got better and he hatched a plan to runaway without me even noticing. Then I thought he stole his ebike and planned on selling it. I will likely never know why he took…Mothering5 min read
Erin Schaden·Jun 24Surrender Some More…I am tired of writing about parenting. It is not my favorite topic. I just want to write about other things that I think about but parenting is all consuming right now, it is like a giant boulder in my path that I cannot evade, get around or change. …Mothering6 min read
Erin Schaden·Jun 22Backing Away from the Edge…I think… I am trying. It has been a hell of a week. I don’t think I have been this emotionally distraught in a very long time. Thank you to all of you who expressed concern, offered support and reached out. …Mothering8 min read
Erin Schaden·Jun 20Blogs from the Edge…Ok I stole that title with a little modification from Carrie Fisher…it is a great fucking title. And I am there, on the edge. Pushed here by the children I gave birth to. Living a life that is more like a warden than a mother. Seeing that my children really…Mothering11 min read
Emily Knight·Jun 13.working handsWhat images come to your mind when you think of working hands. Callused. Rough. Sturdy. Who do the hands you pictured belong to? Soft. Tender. Strong. I picture my mother; scrubbing dirty shoes after a rainy day adventure, bristles catching her fingers. I picture scraped knees; her picking out gravel ever so carefully, dabbing with peroxide, dripping into raw nailbeds. I picture a sink of steaming water; her hands submerged with the day’s dishes.Mothering1 min read
