article thumbnail

Book Nook: The Good Slope

Motherhood Moments

My first essay for East Side Monthly was published in November 2007, and my last one appeared in July 2018. Those were beautiful evening walks for both of them. It was about Olive, a black lab we took care of for a neighbor. Olive and I became best buds, and then she moved to Montana to chase fireflies on the prairie.

Son 100
article thumbnail

Generation Now's First Round of Commissions

Motherhood Moments

When Kate meets Paul — a local daily-newspaper-comic strip-artist — the two develop a friendship that helps them both figure out how to speak their truths. Through her voice and eyes, the world outside of bondage seems a wonderland, a world of great beauty and terror, at once quixotic and curious.