Spice Up Your Life
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.
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Stories Stories: Laurie Frankel’s Adoption Novel, Family Family, is Neither Sunshine Nor Misery
February 12th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
"If it’s simple, you can say it in a social media post; it’s because it’s so hard that it has to be novel." —Laurie Frankel
Do You See What I See?
January 18th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
Did I sense my dad’s sadness about this time of year? Was it the shortening days, the story of a magical baby born in the bleakest of times
Microclimates: Kid Friendships and the Winds of Change
November 7th, 2023 | by Cheryl Klein
If Jasmine is embodying some tween girl stereotype, Dash is hellbent on performing eight-year-old boy to the max, roaring and jumping and sword-playing
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
Going Home Again: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Settler Colonialism, and the Stories We Inherit
July 18th, 2023 | by Cheryl Klein
As a child I loved the stories so deeply. I resisted rereading the books because I didn’t want to have to hate them
“All the parts work together”: Author Sara Nović on Identity, Adoption, and Falling Short as a Parent
June 1st, 2023 | by Cheryl Klein
You can genuinely want what's best for your kids and be dead wrong about what it is.
“Our hopes for healing must be bigger than ourselves”: An Interview With Poet Eugenia Leigh
April 13th, 2023 | by Cheryl Klein
Those mama bear metaphors are spot-on. I will do anything to protect my child. And now, I’m finally pissed off at all the people who did not protect me
I Can Say This Now
February 27th, 2023 | by Cheryl Klein
We’d all been holding our breath for so long. We’d all been on our best behavior
Fear and Loving in Los Angeles
January 10th, 2023 | by Cheryl Klein
My 7-year-old is watching The Croods: A New Age again. It’s better and weirder than you’d think—a tribe of warrior