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mother words essays on cribsheet

By Kate / February 23, 2009 / Comments Off on mother words essays on cribsheet

Hey, I wanted to let you know that it’s Mother Words week over at the StarTribune‘s Cribsheet. May and Kay are featuring essays from some of my lovely and talented Mother Words students. Bravo, ladies!! A new essay will be posted each day. Check it out!

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gearing up

By Kate / February 7, 2009 /

AWP is only five days away, and I’ve been thinking of little else. It’s not just the writing conference that’s on my mind, of course. I’ve been thinking about getting on a plane alone, without anyone I need to hold or rock or calm. I’ve been thinking about sleeping through the night and having three…

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mother words online

By Kate / February 2, 2009 /

Okay, so I’m finally doing it. I’m launching the online version of my Mother Words class in March. Here is the description: Mother Words Online – March 19 – May 21 Whether you are a new mom or a veteran, whether you gave birth to or adopted your child, in this online class you’ll learn…

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re-entry

By Kate / November 20, 2008 /

I suppose it is impossible to hold onto the refreshed, I’ve-just-had-a-vacation feeling for very long once you are home and have stepped again into the day-to-day responsibilities of work and family and life. A few days ago I slipped on my running shoes and I noticed that they were still caked with the fine sand…

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what vacation?

By Kate / August 5, 2008 /

I am up north this week with the girls and my mom and grandpa and my older sister and her fiancé. (Up north is what we say in Minnesota to mean anything north of the Twin Cities.) On Saturday, I led my “Writing Family” workshop in Park Rapids, and it was so much fun. Out…

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upcoming workshops and classes

By Kate / June 26, 2008 /

After six months off from teaching, I am anxious to get back into the classroom. I’m craving that moment in class when a student realizes her writing is going in a direction she didn’t expect. I love being a part of that excitement and discovery. I have two classes coming up this summer/fall: Writing Family…

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guest-blogging

By Kate / February 18, 2008 / Comments Off on guest-blogging

Thank you all for your kind words and encouragement. Your thoughts and good wishes are a virtual buoy, helping me stay afloat. Thank you! I am guest-blogging over at the Minneapolis StarTribune’s Cribsheet today. And each day for the rest of the week, Cribsheet will post a short essay from one of my Mother Words…

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kudos and a contest

By Kate / September 26, 2007 /

I’ve just started my fall Loft class, and it’s so nice to be back “in it” again. I love the elated feeling, the “this is exactly what I want to do, what I love doing” feeling I have after a good class. But before I get too caught up in this term, I want to…

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four decades of feminist mamas

By Kate / March 21, 2007 /

In my class this week we read Miriam Peskowitz’s “Cheerleader” and an excerpt of Adrienne Rich’s Of Woman Born. We’ve now read motherhood pieces published in the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, and today, and I’m very interested in how the concerns and struggles of women and mothers have changed over the last forty years and how…

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when soccer and writing meet

By Kate / February 14, 2007 /

Friday night, D. and I and a bunch of friends went to see the Zinedine Zidane movie at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. It’s a documentary in which 17 cameras follow Zidane for 92 minutes, a full soccer game. The audience was mostly soccer fans with colorful team scarves wrapped around their necks. (Even…

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