Momologues

My first husband was dissatisfied with his mother and when later in our marriage, he fell on hard times, he made it clear that he...

7 yo: I need a bandaid. Me: For what? 7 yo: My knee. Me: What’s wrong with your knee? 7 yo: I’m afraid it’s going to faint. :: After...

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...

It’s almost 1am here. I’m wide awake after cleaning up the vomit filled bed of my eight year old. I’m also pregnant with my third child,...

Birth and death seem to go hand in hand. The immense feelings, emotions, and experiences that come with motherhood are unexplainable, ...

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,...

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...

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

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...

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...