Dear Birthmother: The Full Disclosure Edition
November 21st, 2019 | by Cheryl Klein
The reasons you are on that side of the adoption table and we’re on this side are mostly fucked up, not your fault or our achievement
Monthly Archives: November 2019
In My Defense
November 19th, 2019 | by Odeta Xheka
The creator in me keeps a purposefully irregular schedule, craves solitude, must fade out of reach in order to work. The mother, the daughter, the wife doesn’t have a minute to herself
When the Doctor Has Bad News (Again)
November 11th, 2019 | by Erin Pushman
In the biopsy waiting game, each day is an eternity. You recite the possibilities like prayers—dense bone, bone infection, tumor recurrence
Angela James: Quiet Night
November 7th, 2019 | by Angela James
I have always wanted to be one of those artists that could create when I was feeling terrible. I wanted
A Ritual in Socks
November 5th, 2019 | by Francesca Dalleo
Parenting a child with health challenges is lonely. I am continually surprised at how others don't get it. They can't.
Champagne, Darling?
November 4th, 2019 | by Sandie Friedman
I wake up in my mother’s half of the bed—the bed she shared with my father, and later, perhaps, with
Liminal State: The Descent
November 1st, 2019 | by Maria Photinakis
A comic about giving birth in a time of grief.