May 28th, 2019 | by Cheryl Klein
"There was this tremendous fear of intimacy, which was rooted in the fear of loss.... We both knew that this was going to be our story and that our story would be very powerful."
May 28th, 2019 | by Frances Badalamenti
I thought back to when she was dying. When she had said to me, “You got so mad that you bit me once.”
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;
March 27th, 2017 | by Mutha Magazine
Are you a parent or were you ever a kid? Also do you live in or near Portland, OR? Well
August 5th, 2016 | by Mutha Magazine
Here we are: August has come upon us, in shimmering heat (and bearing ominous back-to-school PR emails). Aspirational summer reading lists
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.
June 24th, 2015 | by Frances Badalamenti
The sound of the baby in the other room wakes me from a mostly restless sleep. It is dark and
July 7th, 2014 | by Frances Badalamenti
About three years ago, I was chatting it up with the dad of one of my kid’s preschool mates. We
February 12th, 2014 | by Frances Badalamenti
The morning after enduring twenty hours of sober-no-pain-drugs labor, two months after my mother died, I am sitting on the
November 12th, 2013 | by Frances Badalamenti
When we dropped our kid off at his first day of kindergarten a few weeks ago, it was as if
