intergenerational Archives

She Needs Me

October 26th, 2021 | by Margaret MacInnis

I was the reason my father was alive, I’d heard most of my childhood. Following his suicide, I wondered what had changed, wondered how I had failed him

One More Forgiveness

July 27th, 2021 | by Tiffany Graham Charkosky

This call from my son annoyed me; I’d been gone less than one hour out of the past 5,760 hours. "Mom. The tree fell on our house."

FOURTEEN

May 6th, 2021 | by Leslie Lindsay

For our youngest daughter’s fourteenth birthday, my husband and I gave her a hard-cover Mediterranean-blue Samsonite with wheels. Also, a

Did a case worker visit my mother's house, sit with her at the same oak breakfast table where I had eaten countless Pop Tarts and watch while she signed paperwork allowing strangers to take guardianship of me

Loss

Navigating Loss, with Tea and Empathy

April 21st, 2021 | by Jenna Devany Waters

She packed her things while I was out of town, disappeared without a word. I ordered a frenzy of furniture online to spare my children

Body

A Letter to My Never-To-Be-Conceived Third Child

March 18th, 2021 | by Tiffany Graham Charkosky

I think of the possibilities we tamped down because we sought to eliminate our biggest fears

Families

How Families Change

December 8th, 2020 | by Esther Cohen

I knew it would be in a city, and I wanted my friends to be unfamiliar and different. Why are some people drawn to what is familiar and others of us the opposite