This site is in its third iteration and goes back to a personal web page my husband, Allen, designed so that family and friends could stay in touch with the developmental milestones and photos after the birth of our first child in 2002. When our second child was born in 2004, we renamed the site Dancing Stars, inspired by a quote taken from Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra: “One must still have chaos in oneself, to give birth to a dancing star.” We were embracing the chaos of early parenthood!

Our lives are still filled with chaos, and we continue to laugh and keep a sense of humor. Today, our archives still go back to 2002. But we changed the name to Mother Mirth to make it more accessible to our readers. Mother Mirth, we hope, continues to be a place where family and friends can visit to feel closer to our children. But it’s also become a storage place where I download thoughts from the margins of American culture, a place on the interwebby thing where even left-leaning, crazy-haired, geeky, earth-loving, spiritually diverse, alternative parenting, bibliophiliac, bleeding heart freaks can feel at home.