Everything Is Rent: On Chosen Family and Wanting It All
June 27th, 2018 | by Cheryl Klein
1. I can’t tell you about my child’s godfather without first telling you about seeing Rent fourteen times. When the
Author Archives: Cheryl Klein
Brown Like a Kiss: Red Poppies, Pink Bear, Brown Mama, White Mommy
May 29th, 2018 | by Cheryl Klein
My son Dash gave up his pacifier recently. That is to say, Mama and I took it from him after
Early and Often: An Adoption Story in Circles
April 24th, 2018 | by Cheryl Klein
My son’s favorite book right now is Babies Come from Airports, a sweet, rhyming story narrated by an adopted child
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Exhaustion
March 13th, 2018 | by Cheryl Klein
There’s a meme featuring a picture of Leonardo DiCaprio in that creamy Gatsby suit, guffawing, with a champagne bottle in
The Long Run: An Intergenerational Examination of Whether to Buy Your Child a Churro
February 6th, 2018 | by Cheryl Klein
I married a loose woman. Before our first date, she warned me “I’ll try to be on time, but I
Seven Days in the Stinking Marsh
December 9th, 2017 | by Cheryl Klein
In the swampy, stinking waters of the river Styx – the actively wrathful fight each other viciously on the surface
Words With Friends
September 7th, 2017 | by Cheryl Klein
We are driving up the coast. The sun is setting, or what my son—ensconced in his rear-facing car seat behind
TRUMPATIZED: Cheryl Klein is FEELING SICK
November 15th, 2016 | by Cheryl Klein
In college I read a short story in which a boy gets kicked out of school. He’s the child of
Apples, Guns and What We Share: CHERYL KLEIN on Family and Politics
August 10th, 2016 | by Cheryl Klein
We are gathered around the table at my aunt’s house: my mother’s younger sister, Lina, her daughter, Carmen, their husbands.*
Boxes of Love: CHERYL KLEIN is KEEPING IT REAL in Online Mama Groups
December 8th, 2015 | by Cheryl Klein
1. It took me and my partner four and a half years to become moms. They were long years: I