Microclimates: Kid Friendships and the Winds of Change
November 7th, 2023 | by Cheryl Klein
If Jasmine is embodying some tween girl stereotype, Dash is hellbent on performing eight-year-old boy to the max, roaring and jumping and sword-playing
About Cheryl Klein
Cheryl Klein
Cheryl Klein’s column, “Hold it Lightly,” appears monthly(ish) in MUTHA. She is the author of Crybaby (out in 2022 from Brown Paper Press), a memoir about wanting a baby and getting cancer instead. She also wrote a story collection, The Commuters (City Works Press) and a novel, Lilac Mines (Manic D Press). Her stories and essays have appeared in Blunderbuss, The Normal School, Razorcake, Literary Mama, and several anthologies. Her MUTHA column “Onesie, Never Worn” was selected as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2022. She blogs about the intersection of art, life and carbohydrates at breadandbread.blogspot.com. Follow her on Twitter: @cherylekleinla.
Author Archives: Cheryl Klein
Claiming and Curating Infertility: The Editors of a New Anthology Talk Trauma, Healing, and Creating
October 3rd, 2023 | by Cheryl Klein
There are so many privileges here. To be able to conceive in the comfort of one’s own home. To be able to conceive without a third party or a medical provider involved. To be able to conceive for free
Late Summer Lament: Unemployment, Wasted Time, and a Hurriquake
August 23rd, 2023 | by Cheryl Klein
I am not using this time to reattach the cupboard doors that fell off their hinges in our kitchen. Instead, I’m becoming unhinged
Going Home Again: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Settler Colonialism, and the Stories We Inherit
July 18th, 2023 | by Cheryl Klein
As a child I loved the stories so deeply. I resisted rereading the books because I didn’t want to have to hate them
“All the parts work together”: Author Sara Nović on Identity, Adoption, and Falling Short as a Parent
June 1st, 2023 | by Cheryl Klein
You can genuinely want what's best for your kids and be dead wrong about what it is.
Don’t Eugenics Your Kid: On the Nature of Nurture
May 10th, 2023 | by Cheryl Klein
In trying to protect myself from what I couldn’t control, I’d forgotten I had agency
“Our hopes for healing must be bigger than ourselves”: An Interview With Poet Eugenia Leigh
April 13th, 2023 | by Cheryl Klein
Those mama bear metaphors are spot-on. I will do anything to protect my child. And now, I’m finally pissed off at all the people who did not protect me
I Can Say This Now
February 27th, 2023 | by Cheryl Klein
We’d all been holding our breath for so long. We’d all been on our best behavior
Fear and Loving in Los Angeles
January 10th, 2023 | by Cheryl Klein
My 7-year-old is watching The Croods: A New Age again. It’s better and weirder than you’d think—a tribe of warrior
We All Scream: Jessica Grose on her New Book About American Motherhood
December 13th, 2022 | by Cheryl Klein
The major roadblock isn’t exhaustion. It is that there are still people who think it’s not the job of the government to help support the next generation of children and their families