the OTHER mother: A B O U T

The Other Mother is really me, Robin Reagler. I am a writer living in Houston, Texas. My partner Marcia and I have two daughters. Pearl was born in March 2004, and Carrie arrived in November 2005. In a lesbian family there are two moms. Marcia is the birth mother, and I am the "other" mother, which explains the name of this blog. Some folks refer to our pad as Grrrlville.

In The Other Mother, I am recording stories and details of our daily life, providing particular answers to the question: What's it like to be a lesbian mom? Some of the more popular topics have been:

I work full-time as the Executive Director of Writers in the Schools. I love my job at WITS because I truly believe that writing can change children's lives for the better. It has certainly changed mine. My poems have been published in dozens of journals, including Ploughshares, American Letters & Commentary, VOLT, and Pleiades. I earned graduate degrees at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. One of my essays on lesbian parenting appears in Confessions of the Other Mother: Nonbiological Lesbian Moms Tell All (Beacon Press, 2006). I keep another blog, Big Window, an inspiration portal featuring cool art, poetry, and photography. Feel free to send me an email.