• Home
  • About
  • Modern Motherhood
  • Stories of Kindness
  • Grace & Nora’s World
  • Contact

Noraeverafter

  • Modern Motherhood

    “Wait and See” (Part Two)

    May 14, 2025 Read More
  • Modern Motherhood

    “Wait and See” (Part One)

    April 22, 2025 Read More
  • Modern Motherhood

    Anger Room

    June 11, 2024 Read More
  • Modern Motherhood

    The Wheel Goes Round and Round

    February 25, 2024 Read More
  • Modern Motherhood

    Removal and Refurbishment 

    May 7, 2023 Read More
  • Brands We Love Grace & Nora's World

    Children’s Book Announcement: “Grace and Nora’s Dance Among the Stars”

    December 14, 2022 Read More
  • Modern Motherhood

    An Ambulance Ride, Ice Bath, and a Word on Joy.

    November 30, 2022 Read More
  • Modern Motherhood

    “She Is The Worst Birth Control”: A Baby Book

    November 8, 2022 Read More
  • Modern Motherhood

    If Only I Could Roller Skate

    May 6, 2022 Read More
  • Modern Motherhood

    Patient Plants, Pristine Spaces, and Bones

    February 11, 2022 Read More
  • Modern Motherhood

    “Wait and See” (Part Two)

    “I love calm people. The ones choosing their words wisely, never raising their voice. Not living to show off, but to exist in a quiet and harmonic way, trying to at least not harm…

    May 14, 2025
  • Modern Motherhood

    “Wait and See” (Part One)

    “Fashion is the armor to survive the reality of everyday life.” – Bill Cunningham April 11, 2025 I slice coat hanger after coat hanger across the metal rod in my closet and reject one…

    April 22, 2025
  • Modern Motherhood

    Anger Room

    “Anybody can become angry—that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way—that…

    June 11, 2024
  • Modern Motherhood

    The Wheel Goes Round and Round

    2/15/24 I tap the foot pedal of my potter’s wheel, arch my back and stretch as the wheel comes to a stop. I throw my sponge into a bucket of cloudy clay water and…

    February 25, 2024
  • Modern Motherhood

    Removal and Refurbishment 

    “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Howard Roark Nora is in the hospital. She has been throwing up for almost a week, but…

    May 7, 2023
  • Brands We Love Grace & Nora's World

    Children’s Book Announcement: “Grace and Nora’s Dance Among the Stars”

    Written by: Maggie Montague (Auntie Maggie) For as long as I can remember, I’ve been drawn to art. I’ve admired the way brushstrokes create a swell of emotions and the way notes join to…

    December 14, 2022
  • Modern Motherhood

    An Ambulance Ride, Ice Bath, and a Word on Joy.

    The week before last Nora came down with “a cold.” That Wednesday, close to midnight, she was struggling to breathe, so when we couldn’t get her saturations to improve, we called 911. Nora and…

    November 30, 2022
  • Modern Motherhood

    “She Is The Worst Birth Control”: A Baby Book

    To my lovely Penelope, When it comes to documenting infancy, your siblings don’t have traditional baby books. Nora has this blog I created when she was about your age, and Everett has an album…

    November 8, 2022
  • Modern Motherhood

    If Only I Could Roller Skate

    Ironically since my last post, the one about seeking order, health, and predictability during my third trimester of pregnancy, Nora has had multiple hospital admissions and ER visits related to seizure activity and respiratory…

    May 6, 2022
  • Modern Motherhood

    Patient Plants, Pristine Spaces, and Bones

    My home is in disarray. A pile of laundry waits to be folded, medical supply boxes are spread across the floor, blocking the front door — signs of my son’s most recent fort- building…

    February 11, 2022
  • Modern Motherhood

    Something Lovely

    It’s almost Christmas. And things are different. I’m sitting near Tyler in our living room, facing a glowing, decorated, pine tree as Christmas music crackles through the record player. Nora is resting, cocooned under…

    December 16, 2021
  • Modern Motherhood

    And Then, We Took Family Photos

    We probably should have canceled the family photoshoot. I was 10 weeks pregnant with my Still- Heart, I was an emotional wreck, and my body had yet to progress through miscarriage on its own.…

    September 27, 2021
Older Posts

Let's keep in touch

Sign up for stories in your inbox

About Me

About Me

Hi! My name is Jesse, and I enjoy filling this space with stories about my motherhood and my family's day-to-day life with Aicardi syndrome. Thanks for stopping by. More

Let’s be friends

Categories

  • Brands We Love (2)
  • Grace & Nora's World (5)
  • Modern Motherhood (65)
  • Research (1)
  • Stories of Kindness (27)

Archives

© 2017 - All Rights Reserved.