2023-05-22 19:23
This post is goodbye, for now. My blog has served its purpose and it is a good thing to know when it’s time to stop. Mothering While Queer helped me look back and make peace with those… Read More
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Monthly posts about my journey as a queer mother of three
2023-03-19 20:01
“It was an accident,” says no pregnant lesbian ever. The lesbian mother does not coo into her baby’s ear, “Honey, you were mama’s little surprise.” While… Read More
2023-02-20 00:48
There’s this thing I think about when I have an intense desire to run away. Not sure where I picked it up, but it works for me. If you’re going to leave something—a relatio… Read More
2023-01-18 23:32
“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.” -David Foster Wallace
It is the summer of 1985 and gossip in my small community buzzes like the fat, lazy… Read More
2022-12-19 22:48
First Christmas out of my box and unwrapped.
I didn’t know during the chaotic part of my life from 1984 through 1986, that I was not safe to embrace who I was becoming. I stubbornly wa… Read More
2022-11-20 16:00
It’s hard to describe the explosion when all of my competing selves crashed into each other in the summer of 1984.
“I was 24 years old and playing racquetball with my identity… Read More
2022-11-13 19:59
After reading the title of my blog, mothering while queer, my oldest daughter asked, “Mom, why queer? Isn’t that, like, a mean, derogatory thing to call someone?”
This… Read More
2022-11-04 16:23
And so, it began…
Mississippi Origins
I was born in 1959, in a small-town hospital in northeast Mississippi. We lived out in the country, so I went to a rural school called N… Read More
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