savagemama: Swimming Toward Confidence
26 Jun
Eliza started swimming lessons this week and I was a total wreck. As I treaded into the water to join our class I looked around and not one other mother in the place was wearing a two-piece bathing suit. Just me. All the other mothers seemed to be taking cues from the same fashion trend. Ill-fitting plastic-type shorts layered over a dated one-piece bathing suit. They all seemed to know that this was the swimming lesson uniform for moms. I somehow missed the memo. So I got under the water as quickly as I could. [more]

I am a freelance writer living at the base of the Mission Mountains in Arlee, Montana with my husband and two daughters. I write about them, growing up Southern, occasionally posing in my underwear and my love of the IRS form 1040, among other things. I write mostly nonfiction including essays and a weekly column for 



