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Motherhood Is Like July & August
The July Garden, 2023 In the same month, the sunflowers began blooming and the “firework” flower showed its face, we also had a rattlesnake slithering near our front door and another one coiled and rattling loudly in the flowerbed. While Heidi’s rose grows tall in a way it never has before (it’s like it knows… Continue reading
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What Does Love Feel Like?
When the question was posed, “What does love feel like?”—all I could think was it feels like seeing a cool bird and wanting to tell him about it. A few weeks later, I would listen to my son sing his own original song, Honeybird. I made up a few verses which made his world. And… Continue reading
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Old Wise Woman’s Tale
Back in 2020 when the world was falling apart, I gave birth to my son. He was due late July, but he came early August. He was born into a hospital room highlighted with laughter. It didn’t matter what blanketed the world, we were laughing, and he was beautiful, and it was birth! These are… Continue reading
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Safe to Fall in Love Here
I moved the bright, blue melemine bowl filled with strawberries from sink to counter. In this simple moment I felt myself really falling in love with summer. I never knew I’d be so enchanted with what has often been my least-favorite season. But whether I’m filling a basket with cut flowers from the garden or… Continue reading
Sierra V. Fedorko 