Spice Up Your Life
April 2nd, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
Inhabiting a running first-person narrative about how much you suck is not, as it turns out, a particularly productive way to live.
Author Archives: Cheryl Klein
“That Intersection is Everything”: Susan Kiyo Ito on Owning Her Adoption Story
February 15th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
"It wasn’t about finances, or youth, or inexperience. It was one hundred percent based on stigma and shame."
Stories Stories: Laurie Frankel’s Adoption Novel, Family Family, is Neither Sunshine Nor Misery
February 12th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
"If it’s simple, you can say it in a social media post; it’s because it’s so hard that it has to be novel." —Laurie Frankel
Do You See What I See?
January 18th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
Did I sense my dad’s sadness about this time of year? Was it the shortening days, the story of a magical baby born in the bleakest of times
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
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