HIDDEN MOTHER: An Excerpt
January 10th, 2018 | by Laura Larson
In 19th century portrait studios, photographers employed a number of different strategies to stabilize the body during the long exposures
Browsing the "Loss" Category
Not Remembering My Mother
January 5th, 2018 | by Amanda Webster
I don’t remember my birth and my mother probably didn’t either, lost in a medically-induced twilight sleep, common practice in
The Red House in the Marigny
December 12th, 2017 | by Hannah Baker Saltmarsh
Two summers ago when New Orleans was still home, a drunk driver cruised our street while passed out on the
What They Were Told—Detroit 1967
November 21st, 2017 | by Elisa Sinnett
I felt it before I was born, felt my father’s pulsing prayer. “Not another girl, not another girl, please Jesus,
Morning in the New Apartment
November 7th, 2017 | by Charlotte O'Brien
Before my oldest daughter is awake my alarm sounds. The dog is still asleep which means she hasn’t walked him. I take
DENIED: On Mothering in America
November 6th, 2017 | by Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar
I don’t know how many times I tried to convince father, but he loathed travel or any other disruption in
“We Might Never Know Why” — Comics from THE FACTS OF LIFE
October 24th, 2017 | by Paula Knight
Excerpted from The Facts of Life, newly published by Penn State University Press in the Graphic Medicine series. “With humor,
Every Last Drop
July 21st, 2017 | by Nancy Méndez-Booth
Little woman. Big choice. Mami stands in front of the menu board at Torico Ice Cream Parlor. Fifty-four flavors of
Ragged: A Stillbirth Story
May 12th, 2017 | by Gabriella Belfiglio
Scattering Here bone and here skin— no teeth in these ashes—you didn’t have time to grow that sharp bite
My First Mothers Day as the Understudy—on Step-Parenting After Loss
May 10th, 2017 | by Betsy Graziani Fasbinder
I don’t know exactly what I was expecting on the morning of that first Mothers’ Day, but it didn’t happen.