Browsing the "childhood" Tag

Are You Nervous?

December 12th, 2023 | by Brittany Sirlin

When it’s dark and the tiny stars stuck to the ceiling glow above our heads, my daughter asks the questions that press at the corners of her five-year-old mind. One night, as her freshly washed hair dampened my shirt, she asked, “What’s the meanest thing someone ever called you?”


We Owned the Night

January 4th, 2023 | by Bridey Thelen-Heidel

Those who know me recognize my smile is too tight, not nearly enough teeth showing. I’m faking it because the


A Daughter’s Mother

September 21st, 2022 | by Janna King

Our first baby would not be a boy as we had planned. I was having a girl


Freaking Homeschool

March 26th, 2020 | by Sacha Mardou

How many kids are living through their unhappy childhoods right now, having lost their safe space?


The Fall

February 11th, 2020 | by Jennifer Jordán Schaller

Her tooth, a white pearl, hung by strings. My four-year-old daughter Ruby had been jumping up and down inside the


Don’t Blink

January 16th, 2019 | by Rica Lewis

At 20, I should have been procrastinating college homework, sipping something cheap and fizzy and wearing too much makeup with



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