Just The Way We Are
by Kelly Wickham “Don’t step directly over the graves, mom,” my youngest warned me. “It’s earth. It’s ok. We’re not here to disturb,” I called over my shoulder. It’s Fall and I like taking pictures. Sometimes, Morgan comes with me and then I spot a graveyard. I am calm with him, calmer than I was […]
by Kelly Wickham Regular contributor Kelly “Mochamomma” Wickhmam is an inspiring force and her manifestos are something to behold. Belated Congrats from the GBP team on your VOTY recognition, Diva! Here is the video of my Voices of the Year 2013 from the BlogHer conference in July. It’s a little hard to watch because I […]
When I first started teaching I met a teacher named Hannah. She could only be described as a WASP and only after I realized she was engaged to a doctor, owned over 40 cookbooks from our mothers’ era, and didn’t plan on teaching after she started having babies. That was never an option for me […]
Whatever it is that’s going on with me I am feeling braver by the minute. There’s power in writing and claiming words and beliefs. This started out as an homage to being a girl and figuring out how to be a woman and that goal is still there. I mentioned it on Twitter and promised […]
At first I thought I had gone blind. Everything was fuzzy and I was jolted, hard. My ears either popped or I was still in slow motion, everything swirling. Why aren’t the children making noise? They were making too much noise just a moment ago, clicking and unclicking their seatbelts. Young boys playing a stupid […]
I was prepared to rant. Jessica Simpson debuted her “new mom body” on the Katie Show and my emotions told reason to take a coffee and doughnut break while I raked Simpson (who gave birth in May) through the coals for selling out and giving me an even bigger complex about the size of my […]
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