Registration for Off the Charts is officially OPEN!
What’s your biggest struggle with NFP? Is it a lack of support? Is it a feeling of being overwhelmed by your own fertility, of not being confident in your ability to chart? Do you struggle with what…
It’s not goodbye, it’s see you around…
Today marks my final day with Catholic News Agency, home to Mama Needs Coffee for these past 6 years. It’s hard to remember when blogging was a thing you kind of hung your head about when answering…
The working mother
She rises at dawn to lace up her running shoes, logging hard-won miles in the gray light of morning. She is up before the sun with a sick baby, a nursing baby, an anxious kindergartener, making toast…
A culture that values abundance everywhere but in fertility
Having announced a pregnancy or two myself, I’ve witnessed the shifting attitude towards new life firsthand. First though, let me acknowledge my immense privilege, for not to do so would be disingenuous; Dave and I have tremendous…
Intimacy, love, and responsibility
The other night as I was swiping on mascara and applying a goodly amount of dry shampoo to my roots, one of my kids asked where I was going. “Oh, nowhere, actually, I’m giving a talk, erm,…
Thoughts from summer break + the 1 travel mistake you probably don’t want to make (or do you?)
Friends, it’s been a minute or two. Directly after confidently announcing the blog would not die, I sort of … let it. Or let it lie fallow, anyhow. But here I am now, popping in at the…
“Off the Charts:” an NFP community
I’ve been working on a little idea lately. Something that’s been percolating for a few years now, in the back of my mind where it mostly remained filed under “I wish this existed” but sometimes, in sharper…
Coffee clicks: It’s May
I have been totally overwhelmed by your responses to last week’s housekeeping post. I initially began blogging as a creative outlet, was drawn deeper into the rhythm and discipline of daily writing as a lonely new mom…
A New Season
Remember those heady days of early blogging when the mommies – and the blogs – were plentiful? I was messaging with a writer friend this morning, reflecting on what an unusual and also extraordinary thing it was…
Accepting Holy Week
Lent can be a strange liturgical season for mothers. There is much wisdom and tradition to impart, and also it’s pretty much impossible to make it to stations of the cross, because 7 PM is a time…