Ode to Chores: The Good The Bad and The Laundry

Whether youre a savvy mom of teens or a new mom trying to get baby to sleep this book is for you. A must read for every mom who ever said: Stop rocking on the chair! Not your average poetry book Ode to Chores is a clever and entertaining view of parenting motherhood children pets and the life and times of moms on call 24/7. ------------------The Inspiration For This BookThe whole thing started because I was lonely. I spent hours every day with my little kids which I really loved for a while but my husband was gone A LOT and when he came home he was all talked out. He just wanted to spend a little time with his two boys roughhousing and eating Oreo Thins.Plans with friends were few and far between because we were all busy shuffling kids to school and activities when we werent working jobs or doing house projects or stumping for our chosen elected officials or reconnecting with our significant others.In the meantime exhausted at the end of every day I still wanted to be an artist a writer and a musician. Id been on stage for 25 years and suddenly the only singing I was doing was lullabies at 3 AM in a rocking chair trying to get my little muffin to sleep. . . just for a little while. . . sleep muffin sleep.Somewhere along the way I put down my pen and found myself deep in the stuff of kids. Then one evening after an especially frustrating dinner with the boys I sent everyone off to their rooms flipped over an envelope lying in the mess on the dining room table and wrote the poem Stop Rocking on the Chair. I was surprised at how satisfying it was to say it on the page.From there I started writing these mom poems all the time. As I did I felt less and less alone. I was not only writing about my experience but a thread of experience that connected to moms all over the world and through time. The common language of motherhood reconnected me to my creativity and other people at the same time.I first thought I wrote this book for myself but it turns out I wrote this book for you. I hope it brings you joy and even makes you cry. I hope it brings mothers together and inspires you to make some art and put it out into the world so we can all have a moment of connection together. Call me. Well have coffee.------------------About the AuthorBrenda Kahn is a poet memoirist and an international recording artist who has shared the stage with Bob Dylan David Byrne and Jeff Buckley. She has expertise in changing both guitar strings and diapers. She is a writer of songs poetry memoir and excuse notes for sick kids. She can paint and spackle like nobodys business and will also perform a cover of Bessie Smiths Aint Nobodys Business if you request it at a live show. She lives in South Salem NY with her husband and two boys her golden retriever (Barley Patches) her two cats (Fluffy and Colby) and Ekko the crested gecko.Learn more about Bren atwww.brendakahn.comStay connected and support her work at www.BrendaKahn.com/Patreon