by Sarah Rudell Beach | Nov 17, 2014
“My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness.” Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born ...
by Sarah Rudell Beach | Aug 4, 2014
I don’t know who you are, because you wrote your post anonymously. But I still think you are brave. In our culture of ideal and perfect motherhood, where “confessions” are things like “I went three days without giving my child a bath,” you wrote that you don’t like...
by Sarah Rudell Beach | Apr 24, 2014
The spaces in our homes are often defined by the activities that are important to us. We have spaces for eating, sleeping, playing, and cooking, and perhaps other spaces for sewing, writing, reading, painting, or model train building. We label the rooms of our homes...
by Sarah Rudell Beach | Apr 19, 2014
For many of us, this is a special time of the year, a time for reflecting on rebirth, or liberation, or the natural world, or perhaps all three. We can bring meaning to our springtime rituals no matter what traditions they come from. There are many ways we can honor...
by Sarah Rudell Beach | Mar 17, 2014
As my daughter gets older, she starts to ask more complicated questions. A few weeks ago, she asked me, “Mommy, how did the first people get borned? Because people can’t just come from nowhere! Did the Buddha make them? Did God make them?” And while...
by Sarah Rudell Beach | Feb 24, 2014
{To the tune of “Piano Man”} It’s 10am on a Saturday,The regular crowd snuggles in,My four-year-old’s curled up next to me,His head nestled under my chin. I say, please let me breathe in this memory,For this isn’t how it usually goes,This will be short, it’ll be...
