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Category: Mommess

Best of Mommess

Testimony 2019

This was originally written as testimony to RI state legislature to help pass the Reproductive Health Care Act in RI in 2019l codifying RI’s citizens right to abortion…

February 10, 2020April 5, 2024 · 4 min read

Best of Mommess

to women who’ve made themselves a holy mess of wonderfulness

This is a shout out to all women, like me, who have experienced trauma and made themselves a holy mess of wonderfulness. This is a shout out to…

January 23, 2020February 10, 2024 · 2 min read

Body & Health

Dart Dart Dart

Dart. Dart. Dart. Rest. Dart. Dart. Dart. Finger, thumb moving. Eyes darting. Soul wondering. Entertainment! A Life! Exciting! Surprising!. Odd. Outrageous. Horrible. Sad. Scroll. Share. Share. Share. Smirk.…

January 6, 2020November 15, 2022 · 1 min read

Best of Mommess

Praying is the last thing you should do

Now, don’t get all hating on me for this. I believe in the power of prayer. Because of prayer, perhaps some important people in my life are alive.…

December 25, 2019June 2, 2023 · 2 min read

Jean Maguire
Family

I have a friend

I have a friend. She used to smoke Camel unfiltered. The first time I was to meet her, was an evening at a dusty Irish pub in Matunuck,…

November 7, 2019November 15, 2022 · 7 min read

Mommess

The worm

Do you remember that story* about the two dimensional world, and what happens when a sphere goes through it? First the sphere looks like a dot, then like…

October 18, 2019November 15, 2022 · 3 min read

Best of Mommess

This isn’t allowed anymore

If I hear one more person refer to “the media” as a monolith, I’m going to… to…. Really, we know better than this, don’t we? There is no…

October 11, 2019June 2, 2023 · 3 min read

Mommess

Shifting

what if this were true?

September 25, 2019August 10, 2023 · 1 min read

Culture

Modern myths

Subtitle: Survival is only for those that can perish. I often wonder about the grand mythic strokes being written across America these last few years. They are big.…

August 10, 2019April 21, 2025 · 3 min read

Culture

Stealing Jesus

Christianity is being used.  And I don’t mean by typical, hypocritical lip service. I mean, Christians know if anyone truly accepts Christ, they are forgiven for all sins;…

January 15, 2019November 15, 2022 · 2 min read

Body & Health

I am my dogs

A generation ago, I had a dream, and I told my mentor about it. Black dogs are barking at me. It is depression. It looks like this (I…

December 12, 2018April 27, 2025 · 3 min read

Culture

I’m mourning today

I’m mourning today To the tune of Mitch McConnell. No matter how sincere, No matter how intelligent, No matter how dispassionate, No matter how believable, no matter how…

October 5, 2018November 15, 2022 · 2 min read

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