Tag: mothering

How Expectations Crush Creativity

Here’s another in my series for The Naked Writing Project. Raw unedited works shared in an effort to break free from the confines of literary critique.

Jen Kinney June 7, 2016 1 Comment

Naked Writing Project:You Can Feel Panic and Thanks at the Same Time: It’s Called Parenting. (Or ‘Panks.’)

There’s this thing where I fear my kids. My anxiety is so tight around my neck that I can’t really breathe. I can’t catch my breath to attempt to keep […]

The Drug Window

There's a brief window of time that I've come to cherish immensely; a time when I get to experience my child without the haze of drugs clouding his mind and personality. I call it the drug window.

How 5 Words Caused an Identity Crisis

Back in 2007 my husband and I moved to Shanghai for his work. It was then that I decided to trade in my old leather-bound journals for an actual blog. […]

In the Nighttime Mind of a Parent to a Child With Epilepsy as seen on The Mighty

I’m doing everything I shouldn’t be doing and nothing I really want to do. I am a master of mindlessness and avoidance, and it’s all I can really muster at […]

Shattered Silence

Profound impact is delivered in many ways. Mine came in the form of a movie. How beautiful it is to have film today; to have the ability to join in […]