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Has your night out been ruined by loud, unruly children? Has your child's behavior been an issue in a public place? In July, a restaurant owner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania instituted a ban on children under age 6, announcing he was...

Karna Converse http://www.literarymama.com/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=44&id=893 tag:www.literarymama.com,2011:/poetry//3.3390 2011-10-03T06:00:00Z 2011-10-02T14:57:49Z

The ultrasound picked up the black hole of her embryo's sac. Her uterus, a death cradle, holds an almost-child...

Jennifer Jordan Schaller http://www.literarymama.com/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=3&id=1025 tag:www.literarymama.com,2011:/poetry//3.3389 2011-10-03T05:00:00Z 2011-10-02T23:35:47Z

dark shadows reveal brothers entwined in my womb one heart between them ...

Danielle Abramsohn http://www.literarymama.com/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=3&id=1024 tag:www.literarymama.com,2011:/poetry//3.3388 2011-10-03T04:00:00Z 2011-10-02T15:00:33Z

I often shudder when turning the corner...

Jane Blanchard http://www.literarymama.com/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=3&id=1023 tag:www.literarymama.com,2011:/poetry//3.3387 2011-10-03T02:04:43Z 2011-10-02T23:03:04Z

So let's tell it straight. They send him into a room to do his thing, grab his weight in cash. I've got my legs spread...

Laurette Folk http://www.literarymama.com/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=3&id=1022 tag:www.literarymama.com,2011:/poetry//3.3384 2011-10-03T01:43:59Z 2011-10-02T15:10:57Z

On the days she makes amends, a mother kneels beside her Mizuko Jizo. There are thousands like it in the temple at Kamakura, effigies of lost children...

Terri Kirby Erickson http://www.literarymama.com/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=3&id=1021 tag:www.literarymama.com,2011:/columns//6.3391 2011-10-02T20:26:17Z 2011-10-02T14:53:45Z

Am I the only one who starts to shake when someone utters the words book and club in close proximity? From the bottoms of my toes and the tips of my fingers and the top of my head, arrows of desire and revulsion, anxiety and ambivalence shoot inward toward my heart and brain. Books and clubs: each category alone generates powerful feelings; together, they nearly knock me over. That so many of my friends love their book clubs only makes it worse.

Rebecca Steinitz http://www.literarymama.com/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=6&id=140 tag:www.literarymama.com,2011:/poetry//3.3385 2011-10-02T18:00:00Z 2011-10-03T02:21:55Z

I wipe the dust that's settled on her face, A pencil sketch that hangs beneath a light. She's there. While she's away I mind her place...

Cally Conan-Davies http://www.literarymama.com/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=3&id=1026 tag:www.literarymama.com,2011:/columns//6.3392 2011-10-02T11:30:54Z 2011-10-02T14:54:22Z

This would be no ordinary chat, no fleeting worries or familiar words like tired or bump. The words she used stretched far beyond that day, well into Thomas' future: attention, reluctant, concentration, development. And with those words I entered new parenting territory.

Katherine J. Barrett http://www.literarymama.com/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=6&id=904 tag:www.literarymama.com,2011:/blog//44.3342 2011-09-27T11:00:00Z 2011-09-22T21:27:53Z

Do you keep a journal - or wish you could get one started? Literary Mama wants to help. This week's prompt is about super powers.

Karna Converse http://www.literarymama.com/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=44&id=893 tag:www.literarymama.com,2011:/reviews//4.3377 2011-09-26T10:08:30Z 2011-09-26T15:00:11Z

Ten years after the publication of Having Faith, Steingraber's most recent book, Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis revisits chemical assaults on growing children's bodies. In Raising Elijah, however, Steingraber expands her focus to include other elements of the environmental crisis, which she likens to a tree: the trunk is our dependency on fossil fuels; its two branches are global climate change and the build-up of toxic chemicals in our bodies.

Andrea Lani http://www.literarymama.com/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=4&id=285 tag:www.literarymama.com,2011:/columns//6.3382 2011-09-25T03:05:31Z 2011-09-24T21:46:18Z

Last month's prompt invited readers to write a piece (poetry, fiction, or essay) that reflects upon the experience of being a mother in a new culture. In this essay, Farzana L. Walcott gives readers a look into the complex compromises that a mother makes when her religious and cultural practices are not held by the majority.

Cassie Premo Steele http://www.literarymama.com/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=6&id=139 tag:www.literarymama.com,2011:/litreflections//8.3376 2011-09-24T16:32:45Z 2011-10-02T20:18:08Z

Literary Mama editors share where their reading ventures have most recently brought them. Download the list to find it fast at your local bookstore or library.

Rhena Tantisunthorn Refsland http://www.literarymama.com/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=8&id=838 tag:www.literarymama.com,2011:/blog//44.3381 2011-09-23T11:00:00Z 2011-09-24T21:55:28Z

Fiction The Gap Year By Sarah Bird Knopf, 2011 Reviewed by Lindsey Mead The Gap Year is a laugh-out-loud funny book about motherhood's rawest and most difficult task: letting go. That Sarah Bird manages to make a story about...

Lindsey Mead http://www.literarymama.com/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=44&id=964 tag:www.literarymama.com,2011:/blog//44.3341 2011-09-20T11:00:00Z 2011-09-22T18:46:38Z

Do you keep a journal - or wish you could get one started? Literary Mama wants to help. This week's prompt is about character traits.

Karna Converse http://www.literarymama.com/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=44&id=893