The Fog of Shoulds
July 10th, 2018 | by Maryam A. Ansari
In the months leading up to my daughter’s birth, I consumed pregnancy books and articles with ferocious appetite. Still pregnant,
Browsing the "On Balance" Category
The Making of Crepes: On Home Schooling
July 9th, 2018 | by Sara Dutilly
1. I’m up in the quiet of morning, wishing the sun would not rise. A child wakes and I meet
You Don’t Seem Like The Mother Type
June 29th, 2018 | by Connie Pertuz-Meza
Connie, I don’t doubt that you can do anything you set your mind to. Nia’s words on yesterday’s group text
Relying on a Kind of Strangeness
June 7th, 2018 | by Thea Hillman
When people find out that I’m a single mom they ask if the dad is in the picture. I tell
Against Food
June 6th, 2018 | by Colleen Rothman
There’s something about hosting a nine-month interloper that can fuck up even a previously healthy relationship with food. It could
Patchwork
May 23rd, 2018 | by Ryane Granados
I was a much better mom before I had kids. My parenting vision was a menagerie of constructed pieces embroidered
Of Firsts and Donuts: Comics
May 4th, 2018 | by Grace Farris
I started drawing comics as a child, and wrote a daily comic strip for my college newspaper. I came back
Ask Aya: Twitter, Superheroes, and Listening to Black Girl Problems
May 3rd, 2018 | by Aya de Leon
I spend a fair amount of time on twitter. Since the election, I follow 2,700 people, so I also have
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
They/mom: THE QUESTION OF THEIR ORIGINS AND MEANINGS (AND ALSO CLOTHES)
March 8th, 2018 | by Ezra Stone
What does a they/mom do? All the things a regular mom does, but with a thickness in the forearms and