HAUSFRAU ARCHIVES

ISSUE 1, SPRING 2003
THE MAMA BEAR ISSUE
She's Coming Out of Hibernation, and Boy Is She Pissed!
What to Do When You Have Kids and Feel Overwhlemed by How Fucked Up Everything Is
Daily Humiliations: How It Came To Be That I Swallowed a Vaginal Suppository
Deconstructing Babe by Grace Maselli
Voyage of the Damned: A Christmastime Train Ride through Hell at the Narrow Gauge Railroad
Maternal Guilt Trips
People Who Need to Be Severely Punished
Shopping with Kids: Or Why Valium Appeals
Interview with Brenda Surabian, Homebirth Midwife

ISSUE 2, FALL 2003
HOME RENOVATION

Day-to-Day Coping in a Squalid Construction Site
Daily Humiliations: How It Came to Be that I Sat in Cat Diarrhea
Hausfrau Survival: Delegate Housework by Grace Maselli
Daily Dilemma: I Need to Pee But How? How Can I Void My Bladder?
People Who Need to be Severely Punished
Interview with Ayun Halliday and Ayun's Tips on Surviving Long, Cold, House-Bound Winters with Kids

ISSUE 3, WINTER 2004
THE SPIRITUAL JOURNEY OF PARENTHOOD
A Journey of Pestilence: The Hausfrau Guide to Lice Eradication
Reflections on Motherhood: Art by Deborah Klotz Paris
My Li'l Guru: Why My Kids Are My Spiritual Teachers
The Power of Frau!
Long Day's Journey Into Night (with a newborn) by Christine Murray
Getting Religion by Peggy Moss
People Who Need to Be Sternly Talked To
Daily Humiliations: How It Came to Be that I Cleaned Maggots Out from Under the Cover of My Toddler's Car Seat
MONSTERFRAU!: Hell Hath No Fury Like a Hausfrau with No Serotonin

ISSUE 4, SPRING 2004
THE HAUSDADDY ISSUE
I Stay Home with My Kids, and You Suck! by David Hilton
Hausfrau Confessions: How It Came to Be That My Two-Year Old Gave Herself a Bath in the Sink
Bed-Time Banter: The Birth of Sire Magazine
Little House in the Suburbs by John Bliss
Hausfrau Expose: The Portland Flower Show--Fragrant, Bizarre, Unfun
Being Around by Stona Fitch
HomeDad Outlaw: A Cartoon by Chip Edgar
Interview with WMPG's HomeDad: Chip Edgar
People Who Need to Be Severely Punished
How I Became a Stay-at-Home-Dad by Carl King
What Is True Co-Parenting? An Exploration of Bean Counting, Gender Roles, and Male Lactation by Sam Stegeman

ISSUE 5, FALL 2004
THE UNSPOKEN ISSUE
I Hate My Playgroup by Anonymous Murray
Miah Drowning by Brenda Surabian
A Letter to My Son by Sharon DeFala
Fast Walking and Other Parental Crimes by Lee Snodgrass
Our Favorite Troublemaking Homedad Takes on the Boy Scouts by David Hilton
Hausfrau Holiday! Chock Full O' Dead Critters!
Pro-Choice Tear-Out Coloring Book
The Anonymous Interview
Every Stick a Gun
Trends in Modern Fiction by A.K. Adams
But I Wanted a Girl! by Kate Haas
People Who Need to Be Severely Punished

ISSUE 6, WINTER 2005
THE BLAAAAARGH! ISSUE
A Post-Pneumonia, Post-Election Sputum Fest
How W. Ruined My Sex Life by Leah Coplon
Cher! A Hausfrau Photo Essay
Parenting as Performance Art by Chester Nashvegas
Hausfrau Holiday Bake-Off: Another Portrait that Norman Rockwell Forgot to Paint
Interview with the Sketch-a-Chick, Marijane Brink
Hausfrau Thanksgiving
People Who Need to Be Severely Punished
Regrettable Parenting Moments
What I Wouldn't Give for My Old Body by Sharon DeFala
Centerfold by Tanya Boggs

ISSUE 7, SUMMER 2005
THE (LACK OF) SEX ISSUE
There is Nothing Sexier than Doing the Dishes...Except Vacuuming by Stacey Greenberg
The Soundtrack of Your Vasectomy by Misha Angrist
A First Date for Hausfrau
A Period Piece by Jen Marvelous
People Who Need to Be Severely Punished
Four Phases by Sharon DeFala
Daily Humiliations: How It Came to Be that I Cleaned Cat Diarrhea Off a Hammer
Milk by Raye Tibbits
The Anonymous Poll (for Lynne)
Gallery of Hausfrau Turn-Offs
The Best Freakin' Mac 'n' Cheese in the World
No Sex Please, We're Reading by A.K. Adams
Centerfold by Lisa Bowe

ISSUE 8, THE DARK MONTHS 2005/2006
LOSS AND OTHER NATURAL DISASTERS
Heritage Days by Raye Tibbits
The Apocalyptic Hausfrau: How It Came to Be that My Head Nearly Exploded Whilst I Drove South on I-95 During a Deluge
Photographs, Cover, and Centerfold by Tanya Boggs
Losing the Delusion of Permanence (or How We Got to Sri Lanka) by Peggy Moss
People Who Need to Be Severely Punished
The Adventures of Lobotomommy by Christine Murray
Regrettable Parenting Moments
Mass Murder in the Bathrom Sink by Jennifer Lewis
Like a Steam Locomotive by Tom Davies
My Li'l Guru
The End: A Carton by Jennifer Lunden
The Year of Magical Thinking: A Book Review by A.K. Adams


ISSUE 9, SPRING 2006
THE BAD MUTHAH ISSUE
My Mother's Gift: The "Must Beat Romo" Supplement
"Coffee" by Raye Tibbitts
"A Heart that's a Whore: The Beautiful, Devastating Patricide of Martha Wainwright" by Misha Angrist
Cover art and illustrations by Leticia Plate
Centerfold photograph by Tanya Boggs
The (Not Completely) Anonymous Poll
"New Orleans Update" by Vanessa Torres
"Me Time" by Stacey Greenberg
"Pot 'n' Kettle" by Sharon DeFala
"Parenting Challenges" by Kelly Burns
"From Sri Lanka" by Peggy Moss
"Rage" by Grace Maselli
"The Accidental": Do Bad Mothers make Good Fiction? by A.K. Adams

ISSUE 10, FALL 2006
THE UN-HIP MAMA ISSUE
Unhip piercings & tattoos
Daily humiliations
Regrettable parenting moments
Big, floppy tushies
Tales o' urinary incontinence (super sexy!)
Cover by Leticia Plate
"I bought an SUV" by Kate McDade
Centerfold photos by Lisa Goodfellow Bowe
"My nightmare flight across the country with two small children" by Sharon DeFala
"Dianne" by Delia Macdonald
"Ode to my breastpump" by Raye Tibbitts
"Goin' with the flowbee" by Elisabeth Wilkins Lombardo

ISSUE 11, WINTER 2007
THE FEEL GOOD ISSUE
"How it Came to Be that I Was Bitch-Slapped by the Parenting Gods in the Seasonal Aisle of CVS"
"Pump and Drive" (a breastpump fiasco) by Lindsay Sterling
"The Mother of Poetry" by Raye Tibbitts
Cover art by Jeremy Hutchins
"It's All Part of My Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy" by Misha Angrist
"Regrettable Parenting Moments"
"Feelin' Good about Vomit" by Leah Coplon "Soccer Mom! A Celebration" by Bess Welden
Book reviews by A.K. Adams: Bad Faith, Suite Francais, Lovely Green Eyes, and A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in a Conquered City
"Feeling Bad about Not Feeling Good" by Cree Hale Krull
Movie Reviews by George Chaison-Lapine: Charlotte's Web, Austin Powers, and It's a Wonderful Life

ISSUE 12, SPRING-SUMMER 2007
THE SIRE! MAGAZINE ISSUE
Man Kamp! The Men! The Meat! The Mayhem! (an exclusive interview with Mike Dank)
Frank Sex Talk with Lynne
Hausfrau Redux! I Take a Bite out of the Big Apple!
Weird Food Combos at the James Beard Awards!
With writing by favorite dads: Stona Fitch, Cree Hale Krull, Rob Wilder, Alan Parowski, and Bruce Triggs
Dreams from My Father -- Hausfrau's first color centerfold by Jeremy Hutchins

ISSUE 13, FALL/WINTER 2007 - 2008
THE MESSINIESS OF LIFE ISSUE
Cover by Jen Judd-McGee
Lice Redux!
"If You Give a Mom a Cup of Coffee" by Brooke Williams
Unhappy Lice-Ridden Snowman, photo by Amy Winton
"The Strange Case of Dr. M""My Life. My Mess. My Chaos. My Choice. Is Chaos" by Peggy Moss
"It's a Miracle! Bra!"
"Losing My Pseudo-Religion" by Misha Angrist
"Hausfrau Holiday Bake-Off: Another Portrait that Norman Rockwell Forgot to Paint"


ISSUE 14, FALL 2008, THE BIRTH 'n' SEX DOUBLE ISSUE
"How It Came to Be that I Gave Birth in a Utility Closet"
Interview with China Marents: She Gave Birth to the Mama Zine
"How It Came to Be that I Gave Birth in a Cattle Trough"
Stories by Brooke Williams, Dan Kolbert, and Raye Tibbitts
"How It Came to Be that I Attempted to Give Myself a Six-Month-Long Epidural"
Centerfold comix by Jeremy Hutchins
"My Knuckles Brushed Bill Clinton's Junk" by Jake McNally
"Hausfrau Fantasies"
Interview with Sex Goddess, Susie Bright
Gina Rourke of Nomia
Man Kamp Redux: Interview with Mike Dank





ISSUE 15, MARCH 2009, THE EUROPEAN ISSUE
One humungous hausfrauian comic (40 pages long, folks) about our trip to Europe.
Chock full o':
bacon
hot EMTs
Italian soldiers
a man with pumpkin-colored pants
horse meat
saints and shiksas
cliffhanger action
and with special guest stars Leslie Oster and Ms. A.B.