Smoothed Over With Feeling
June 27th, 2024 | by Vanessa Hope Schneider and Carissa Potter Carlson
I want tenderness & softness
Browsing the "On Balance" Category
Full Times: When You’re Tired But Can’t Blame the Patriarchy
June 20th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
She resented me for resenting her. Did I really think she wanted to work two jobs?
Accepted, Not Earned
January 25th, 2024 | by Xinran Maria Xiang
I developed an allergy to doing less than two things at the same time. How dare I dawdle when I needed to prove my usefulness to society?
Platonically Queered: Friendship Beyond Borders
December 7th, 2023 | by Kat Vaino
As my children grew, I began to look for the room for myself
I Lost Custody of My Baby and Went to Buy Plants
December 1st, 2023 | by Starr Davis
I tell my friends not to worry. Black women are allowed to be crazy. It is the one thing I can do without doing
Rejecting the Selfless Mother
November 9th, 2023 | by Megan Evans
I was nine months clean and sober when I got pregnant. In the naivete of early sobriety, I thought I had life figured out and was ready to share this wisdom with a child.
What Happened to My Super Strength (Part I)
September 6th, 2023 | by Johna Mandel
The contestants compete to see who is the strongest
Alone
August 29th, 2023 | by Caroline M. Grant
I look around my comfortable house—its walls and roof dramatically sturdier than the shelters on Alone—and I am grateful, but: I kind of want to run away.
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
D is for Divorce
August 10th, 2023 | by Sara Sadek
Divorce, assuming shared custody, does what most marriages don't: it protects at least some of a mother’s time from being simultaneously beholden to both the paid work of her profession and the unpaid work of mothering.