Body & Health
Dark dog of exhaustion
I love to watch my kids sleep. I enjoy this for many reasons; to witness a state of deep relaxation, to observe their sweet features, and to know…
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Category: Mommess
Body & Health
The Deep Suck of Depression
I’ve been around depressed people. You can feel it. It’s like they have more gravity, and their energy pulls on you. It makes you want to run away,…
Mommess
Quote Day
Below are a few quotes that have caused me to pause at different times in my life. Hope you enjoy them. You can’t get enough of what you…
Creativity
Safe Sleeping
I spent my writing time putting this together, because it feels prettier than anything I had to say today. Mommesses can break the rules. Any. Time. They. Want.…
Body & Health
The Inside on Fight or Flight
If you’ve ever had a panic attack, you know what the physical “flight or fight response” feels like. The rapid heart rate, dark, narrow vision and focused, simplified…
Culture
Efficiency vs. Effortlessness
I’d let my house get even more out of control than usual. Laundry piled high, dishes not quite done, backyard with a spillover of inside toys, piles of…
Family
Tasslenisms: part two
see also Tasslenisms One ♥ Tasslenisms Two ♥ Tasslenisms Three Tasslen at egg hunt: Look mom, a double yolker! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Tasslen: mom, can I…
Mommess
Womanness
Leaving blanks, and spare of words. Images instead. Even a most Simple woman, Can leave a most complicated man Scratching his head. Follow Mommessa’s board The Journey…
Creativity
Empowering words
I sway between thinking words have relatively no import (when you think of the sheer quantity of words on the internet, and how often we act because of…
Culture
B Sides
I just heard a story on NPR about how some black gospel records of the 50s and 60s included civil rights songs on the B sides. This heartfelt…
Family
The ultimate fill
When I dropped my daughter at preschool today, they had a guessing game for the kids: how many jelly beans are in the jar? The lesson for the…
Body & Health
Mending from Adrenaline
Ever notice when you are stressed, and adrenaline swims through you like a incessant espresso drip, how you tend to abbreviate incoming information just to keep going? I…