The Potty Mouth Granny

  • The Spinster Baby Mama: Chronicles of an Unbothered Forest Witch

    I’m currently single, and every now and then I wonder if there’s something wrong with me. I’m almost 56 years old. Never married. A single mother. Teenage mother. Two children by the age of 21. Now I’m single with a cat. The literal stereotype. According to society, I’m supposed to feel like shit about this.…

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  • The Book That Made Me a Feminist: The Women’s Room

    I became a feminist back in 1996 after reading The Women’s Room by Marilyn French, a groundbreaking novel originally published in 1977. That book forever changed the way I viewed womanhood, marriage, motherhood, and society’s expectations of women. And nearly thirty years later, I still consider it one of the most influential books I’ve ever…

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  • The Day Death Missed Me

    Today is the 32nd anniversary of the day I got hit by not one, but two cars — and somehow stayed among the living. I don’t remember the impact. Just crossing the street. Not the sound. Not the moment my body met metal. My mind keeps that door locked. What I do remember is waking…

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  • You Are My Love Child

    Yesterday was a day she would tuck carefully into the folds of memory. It was the birthday of her oldest child thirty-eight years now and the weight of that number pressed gently against her chest and her soul. She could hardly believe it. Time, that quiet magician, had slipped by while she wasn’t looking. It…

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