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Hope in coping mechanisms
Today is Easter Sunday, and I’m sitting at dining table, laptop nestled among mountains of near-folded clothes, purple and white towels, and underwear. I’m also sneaking in some…
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Family
What happened to the chicken bag?
The types of explanations we received as kids about the mundane questions of life, alters how we develop our capacity for internal reasoning. Becoming educated with diversity of…
Creativity
What’s your best marketing plan?
Answer: the one you will actually do. No one needs to elaborate any more than this, but I will write like wild anyway because I’m a human who…
Best of Mommess
Sushi Bake Beliefs
On Food Culture, Balls of Beliefs, Paradox, Music, and Menopause Yesterday my daughter found a recipe for a Sushi Bake, and I was immediately skeptical. Who wants to…
Mommess
Flip the bird like an artist
I love birds, including this one. Lately, I’ve been finding myself (and several of my friends) angry about how the world has been working. For us as individuals,…
Mommess
When you don’t have words…
say it another way. Sometimes forming essays that contain a beginning, middle, and end feels incredibly limiting, and not on target with what I’m working on… or through…
Mommess
weaving the www
With the wild west, a personal party, and thoughts on the web as a woman’s medium. Women’s work, I’ve been told by more than a few wise souls,…
Family
non-shop adventures and the underappreciated art of window shopping
Here’s a little story about non-shop adventures and participating in your local economy even when you aren’t flush with currency. It’s like flash-mobbing a business you love, but…
Culture
Release the Patriarchy
I have a social activist friend who occasionally warns folks what words folks should use in everyday conversation. Two words in question: army and just. I believe she’s…
For My Kids
Jamestown, RI
Chapter One: Rock I grew up on “the rock,” otherwise known as Jamestown, RI. A place of roughly the same geographical spread as Manhattan, but far fewer people…
Creativity
On making love, not war, and the silent majority
When I first heard Double Fantasy at 11, I knew I’d heard something new. A collaboration with two unique voices: one from the West, one from the East.…
Culture
when practicality looks like magic: 222
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” -Arthur C. Clarke Years ago I was contracted to coordinate and improve the digital marketing for an explosively growing outfit.…