
Mother Tongue is a memoir-in-progress by Nicki Pombier about disability, motherhood, and language, with stories posted on Tuesdays, every two weeks.
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I heard her before I saw her.
The gasp and pant, the thud of a body giving over to gravity.
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Wednesdays are sacred.
Each week, we make music with a group called the Huffbunnies. It’s a hootenanny instigated by three friends in 2015, who missed making music. (Cute lil’ origin story here.) Why not do it, why not take turns hosting,...
This post is a little different from ones I’ve written so far. This one originated out of a need I felt to respond to a recent article by Anya Kamenetz in New York Magazine: “The Grand Tradition of Suing for School Tuition.” My post today i...
On Mother’s Day, the son who made me a mother graduated from college.
Sometimes people don’t know about Jackson. I write so much about my other son, Jonah, that when Jackson comes up to someone who hasn’t known me that long, they exclaim,...
We had Jonah’s fourteenth birthday party at Jalopy, a little roots music venue that lets us rent it out. It’s dim lit with brick walls and pews we push to the side, opening up a dance floor we make good use of, with a little stage where Jon...
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Mother Tongue is a memoir-in-progress by Nicki Pombier about disability, motherhood, and language, with stories posted on Tuesdays, every two weeks.
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