Just The Way We Are
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 […]
By Kelly Wickham Just before school ended I agreed to attend our 6th grade field trip to the City Museum in St. Louis. It’s the second time I’ve been on this trip and only missed last year due to last minute stuff, so I was looking forward to it again. Six Graders, or Sixers […]
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 […]
I am just stubborn enough to refuse to make New Year’s Resolutions. Instead, I’ll call them “goals” or “aspirations” or “manifestos”. The more I think about declaring this, for myself, the Year of the Girl, the more I am dedicating to it. Everything starts out as a small idea, right? What that means for […]
Something happened this morning. I can’t really explain it, but I had spent the morning reading books, working on a proposal, and doing my social media for Little Pickle Press, and then I decided to check in on Twitter. Nothing big, really, and that’s not normal for me this time of day but I’m […]
The first welfare office I ever stepped in was in this one-story dark brown office building that was on the curve of a road that made it seem even more remote than it was. It was unmarked and so drab looking that it made me wonder if, in brighter daylight, it would somehow look more […]
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