Momologues

I would say my life has been defined in a large part by the lack of agency my mother had in her choice to have children. She was married...

Three. For some reason three was the magic number in my head. Number one was so hard to conceive, to carry, to birth, to nurture. Number...

My husband was out of town for the day of my scheduled checkup. Home with our first born (via emergency cesarean), I was well into my...

I spent eight months worrying about what it would be like when I finally went into labor. I had heard so many stories about painful birth...

When I was in college, after a spell of indiscriminate sex partners who were not at all interesting or good to me, I met an artist who...

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 ...

She was trying to become pregnant after so much planning. She’s so smart, such a planner. She was so thrilled to finally get a positive...

My husband and I already had two beautiful, healthy children that were well into self-sufficient ages. Two children were all we could...

I spent the first night of my son’s life with only him in the hospital, as my husband was tired and needed to go home to sleep. I didn’t...

"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...

I knew I was pregnant. That’s not why I made an appointment at the family planning clinic. It wasn’t my first time in this situation,...

Five pregnancies, one abortion, two miscarriages, and two live births. All such different experiences and I was a different person for...

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...

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...

This photo is from a time when my then-husband was out fishing and I was, simply put, not okay. My body was broken in many ways after a...

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...