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.*
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TO BLACK PARENTS VISITING EARTH: Letter #2 from Janet Stickmon, on BOOKS
August 9th, 2016 | by Janet Stickmon
Long before those early months of motherhood, when I was trying to figure out how to nurse Baby Girl, how
WHEN YOU FIND ANGER ON THE YOGA MAT: Rachel Penn Hannah on Parenting a Special Needs Teen and Never Finding the Elusive Calm
July 27th, 2016 | by Rachel Penn Hannah
Going to yoga on the first Sunday morning of January, I had tensed at the thought of all the New
Nefertiti Austin on Adoption’s #PARENTINGSOWHITE Problem
July 26th, 2016 | by Nefertiti Austin
I’ve become fast friends with a parent at my son’s school. Recently she admitted that she thought my husband had left me
Radical Empathy: DEATH IS STUPID, an Interview with Anastasia Higginbotham
July 25th, 2016 | by Katherine Thome
Grieving children and children of divorce learn way too early that adults are emotional children. Children of tragedy experience a
X-Men Sexism: On Talking to Girls About Misogyny—and Women Kicking Ass by AYA DE LEON
July 20th, 2016 | by Aya de Leon
As my six-year-old daughter and I were driving back from a wonderful camping trip in the redwoods, we passed the
NURTURE THE WOW: An Interview with Danya Ruttenberg
July 19th, 2016 | by Danielle Leshaw
I first met Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg when we were cloistered in the remote hills of Georgia at a summer retreat
BREATHING UNDER WATER by Renee Macalino Rutledge
July 11th, 2016 | by Renee Macalino Rutledge
We are in line for snorkel equipment at Hanauma Bay. I know Maya is nervous because of all the questions
TO BLACK PARENTS VISITING EARTH: Letter #1 by Janet Stickmon
July 8th, 2016 | by Janet Stickmon
To Black Parents Visiting Earth, It has taken me several months to write to you … and I don’t even
Frances Badalamenti’s Kid Has a STONED DAD
June 2nd, 2016 | by Frances Badalamenti
The first time that I was offered weed was in eighth grade. It was pre-braces and post onset of menses.