Some terrible things happened this last weekend. It’s the end of October, and it’s supposed to be fun and fall and Halloween, and everyone finally in the swing of things at school and work, and the beginning of the holiday season. Instead, some men went on some rampages and killed people. A white man murdered […]
blackmail
It was a crazy day over here! Maybe it was a case of the Mondays. Maybe it was the day-after-daylight-savings-time-effect. Maybe it was tired kids who went away with dad this weekend (2) or irritable kids who didn’t get to go away with dad this weekend (2). Whatever it was, today was difficult. In the […]
at it again
Dammit. I need to write again. The thing is, I don’t have the time. I’m tired all the time. Carpenter and I get like maybe 6 hours of sleep a day, at the VERY most, and we are running a construction business as well as raising 4 kids and 2 dogs (I still insist one […]
year of the cicada
I haven’t written in forever. I’d like to say I was taking a sabbatical, or that I was on a yearlong expedition. But in reality, I’ve just been that. In reality. Four kids is a lot–as in, a lot more than three kids. And we once upon a time had four little kids, 8 down […]
human mama
Both of my parents have now addressed at different times that I seem to be turning “negative.” As in, when you read my writing or listen to me talk, it might sound like I don’t love being a mom to four kids. The truth is that this is what motherhood is. This is what parenting […]
heart broken
If you didn’t hear about it yet, there was another police-shot-a-black-person incident yesterday. His name was Alton Sterling, just so you know, and he was 37, younger than Carpenter and myself. And just so you know, he was a dad. My heart hurts from it. Aches for the mamas and the children and the cousins […]
bad guys
There are a lot of bad guys in the world. More now than ever, it seems. On the news, in politics, in the movies, …we’re not even talking about dark alleys. It seems like everyone has an angry, judgy version of themselves and it seems so hard for folks these days to stop. To take […]
brotherly love
I’m sure you’ve all been on the edge of your seats for months, now, wondering if I’m ever going to weigh in on the current election process and candidates. Well, even if you’re not at the edge of your seat, hang on to it, because here I go: humanmama’s take on the 2016 presidential election. […]
sorry to disappoint
Kids: I hope I don’t let you down. Wait–let me rephrase that. I’m going to let you down. Don’t even argue, I won’t argue either. It’s a fact. I’m your parent. I am with you and in charge of your life for so many hours per day that it is next to impossible that I […]
ring ring ring goes the bell
When I first began this blog there wasn’t much in the way of mama-blogs. Not a lot of photography blogs. Blogging was just a thing, or just beginning to be a thing, and it took off (I think) because it’s like Facebook and Twitter and all those other “social media” things: blogging is a place […]