Last night, I wrote a Guest Post for a woman named Cheryl. Cheryl blogs over at Mommy Pants, and she asked me to write a post for a series she does called Mommypants Moments. This series asks a guest writer to examine a moment in which she faces what it really is to be someone’s mother.
A pulling on of her “Mommy Pants,” if you will.
After I finished writing my guest post, I scrolled through some of the other posts that have appeared.
Uh oh.
I am not at all sure I got it right.
I rarely play completely by the rules.
I went where the idea took me.
My post will be going up at Cheryl’s house tomorrow, assuming it goes up at all.
So if you click over to Cheryl’s blog today?
You’ll find good stuff, but you won’t find me. I may be there tomorrow.
Maybe.
Writing that post got me thinking about motherhood, and those thoughts drove the selections of this week’s Featured Bloggers.
Amy from Honest (Mostly) Conversations About Life, Real and Surreal
I have read some of Amy’s work in the past, and she is generally a smart, thoughtful, and funny writer.
Emphasis on thoughtful.
Check out this post, in which she writes of special moments with her father at her wedding.
Or this post, in which she writes about her love of writing.
Or this post, in which she weaves a tale of magic for her sons.
Beautiful, poignant, smart, funny . . . thoughtful writing.
And then check out the post I am featuring, entitled Why Adopt? No-Matter-What Love
Emotional, heartfelt, poignant . . . thoughtful.
Perfect.
Julie from By Any Other Name
Julie is breathtaking and hilarious and bawdy and ridiculous and accomplished and sassy and sarcastic and smart as hell. She is all of those things over there on By Any Other Name. All of those things all the time.
Check out this post, in which she writes of being vulnerable in her writing.
Or this post, in which she writes of the difficulties of being done.
Or this post, about her friendship with her sister.
Julie is an amazing writer, but she is not always tender and quiet.
That is not a finding of fault . . . it’s just the truth.
So I was just blown away by a post Julie wrote that appeared recently on Nichole’s blog In These Small Moments.
A guest post entitled Petal Lashes.
A story of being a mom.
Tender and quiet and exquisite.
It’s just perfect.
And finally?
Allie from Hyperbole and a Half
No way you don’t know who Allie is.
I am linking my favorite post of hers, which has nothing whatsoever to do with motherhood.
How a Fish Almost Destroyed My Childhood
Just because.
So there.
My dad didn’t come to my wedding. He was invited and decided not to show up. So my mom and son walked me down the aisle. He walked his adopted daughter down the aisle, but not me. Guess that’s how it goes right?
Yay first comment again! I do love a quickie. Ehhem.
OK, that sucks.
If it makes you feel better? My step-dad (who is like 5 years older than I am) walked me down the aisle.
My dad was not invited and did not attend.
I remember nothing about that walk except calm.
And that was more than I could have hoped for . . . calm.
I know Allie. Found her on twitter. The post about moving her dogs across country just about killed me. So happy to see her again here. I’ve been missing her.
Allie is fabulous.
She doesn’t blog as much as I would like.
But she is fabulous.
Allie’s “Dogs don’t understand simple concepts like moving” left me convulsing in a pile of my own urine. It was quite possibly the funniest thing I have ever or will ever read!
Jule’s post at Nichole’s took m breath away.
Amy I don’t know yet, but will meet her soon.
Yuliya -
That was not one of of my favorite posts of hers — possibly because it read as a report on our own dogs’ move up here to Oregon. I had to NOT post a similar story for fear of being called a copy-cat. Annoying.
But yes . . . Allie is fabulous.
The story I linked?
Kills me every time.
Every time.
omg, that fish story had me cracking up!!!
off to read the rest!
Most of her posts are just . . . comedic gold.
You’ll see.
I’ve had my sister-in-law and her family staying with me so have BARELY been near the computer for days.
Picture me gazing at it longingly.
Now. Imagine my jaw dropping when my in-laws were packing up today and took a moment to on to check out your New Featured Bloggers….
Holy crap.
Thanks.
Julie -
You are more than welcome.
You wrote an amazing post. You write a lot of amazing posts, but this one reached out and grabbed me. I love when that happens.
Thank you!
I loved that post.
Kris
I love love LOVE Allie…and her sense of uncensored outrageousness is like no other.
My fave post? the birthday cake.
Can’t wait to see you at Mommypants.
xo
I love Allie.
She needs to post more often.
You probably know her better than I do (which is not at all).
Tell Allie to get her posting ass in gear.
Allie kills me. If she posted more often I really would have died from hyperventilating and peeing my pants at the ame time. The cake post. Or, her recent night fears and scary stories post. Not so much the dogs. I have cats.
I was going to write more but then thought if I EVER get my act in gear and start a blog? I’ll want that story. You’ll have to wait.
Yes. Make sure you keep your stories for yourself.
Although, when I leave a comment on someone else’s blog in which I share something meaningful or interesting?
I always copy it into a word document so that I have it for myself.
More than a few of my posts here on Pretty All True started out as comments on someone else’s blog.
Do that.
You should always have your stories for yourself.
When I think of Allie B, I think of Birthday Cake & Helper Dog, both topics guaranteed to make your beverage of choice come out of your nose if you happen to be drinking anything when you read those posts. Gah! The Fish – and all of the others, let’s face it – are excruciatingly funny! And they’re funny every time you read them! I have to pace myself with her stuff or I’ll get hurt. Killer laugh hiccups.
I am quite sure that the other writers on your list tonite are note worthy, too. I’m already a big fan of Mommy Pants.
Good on you for these and for surviving Spring Vacation 2011!
Yes, I am rather pleased to have made it through Spring Break.
YAY!
Thank you.
I love me some Julie, and she has great taste in literature (we found each other through comments on that Mad Woman’s blog, because we both fell in love with Lamb: the Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood pal). I think she has a master plan to get me out to the west coast to run & get drunk . . . and something about a sports bra.
It’s not just a master plan, John. It’s a vision of the future. Believe.
I have mentioned before what a big fan I am of Christopher Moore.
Although that is not my favorite book of his.
But still fabulous.
OH MY GOD! I can’t believe I’m a featured writer here! I can’t wait to tell my friends. Oh wait, I’ll have to go get some friends. But it will be so much easier to find friends now that I can tell them Kris picked me to be on Pretty All True. They will be beating down my door to be Kris’s featured pick’s friend. Seriously, I’m really flattered.
Amy
Amy -
You are so silly. That was (and is) an awesome piece of writing. Well deserving of a larger audience. I hope the right eyes see it.
And I hope the right people connect to your message.
Much love to you.
Kris
The “What about the dumb fucks” absolutely cracks me up…but my favorite is Coyote Blue, followed closely by Fool.
Me?
I am fond of his Vampire books.
The only vampire books I will ever read.
You Suck, Love Bites, and Bloodsucking Fiends.
Love those.