February 10th, 2025 | by Cheryl Klein
Knowing that Joey is alive because of research from the early 1900s makes me wonder what diseases my kids might be at risk for later in the 21st century if today’s research skids to a halt
January 24th, 2025 | by Cheryl Klein
In bed in my sister’s old bedroom, my son asked, “Will our house burn down?” “No,” I said. In my head I added, knock on wood.
December 16th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
People rarely write memoirs about purely happy childhoods
October 30th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
I watched it as an allegory of a determined but clueless white woman adopting a Brown child. (Is there anything more on-brand for a white woman than seeing every movie as being about me?)
October 7th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
Love is love, but fear is many things
August 28th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
Scream into a fan to make their voices sound weird. Take turns trying to shove each other through the cat door
June 20th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
She resented me for resenting her. Did I really think she wanted to work two jobs?
May 6th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
"The systems are clearly biased...but we also see in the Hart story just how many individual acts of bias contributed to these kids' deaths."
April 25th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
"Russian immigrants find the American friendliness to be off-putting and insane. Why do people smile so much?"
April 2nd, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
Inhabiting a running first-person narrative about how much you suck is not, as it turns out, a particularly productive way to live.