Time, Travel: Personal Apocalypses and What Comes After
October 16th, 2018 | by Cheryl Klein
Two-thousand twelve was an apocalyptic year for me, as if the Mayans had been thinking of a thirty-something white lady
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Smart Enough
September 6th, 2018 | by Cheryl Klein
Sometime during the lovely, delusional years that C.C. and I daydreamed about having kids, we found ourselves in the apartment
Against the Imperative Verb Tense: Stories That Taught Me More Than Any Parenting Manual
August 6th, 2018 | by Cheryl Klein
I haven’t read a single parenting book all the way through. I’m no fan of taking pride in ignorance, but
Brown Like a Kiss: Red Poppies, Pink Bear, Brown Mama, White Mommy
May 29th, 2018 | by Cheryl Klein
My son Dash gave up his pacifier recently. That is to say, Mama and I took it from him after
Early and Often: An Adoption Story in Circles
April 24th, 2018 | by Cheryl Klein
My son’s favorite book right now is Babies Come from Airports, a sweet, rhyming story narrated by an adopted child
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
The Long Run: An Intergenerational Examination of Whether to Buy Your Child a Churro
February 6th, 2018 | by Cheryl Klein
I married a loose woman. Before our first date, she warned me “I’ll try to be on time, but I
IT’S THE HOLIDAYS: What Is Even Happening? ASK A MUTHA on Traditions Old and New and Demolished
December 11th, 2017 | by Mutha Magazine
It got cold (thought it took a suspiciously long time). The store windows have become aggressive. People start drinking more;
Seven Days in the Stinking Marsh
December 9th, 2017 | by Cheryl Klein
In the swampy, stinking waters of the river Styx – the actively wrathful fight each other viciously on the surface
Words With Friends
September 7th, 2017 | by Cheryl Klein
We are driving up the coast. The sun is setting, or what my son—ensconced in his rear-facing car seat behind