Requiem for Target
March 28th, 2025 | by Cheryl Klein
Moms daydream about solo trips to Target. Moms make memes about Target. Target promised it had our backs
Browsing the "Hold it Lightly" Tag
In Praise of Antibiotics and DEI Hires
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
Hazy Shade of Winter: Fire, Destruction, and Survival in Los Angeles
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.
The Flawed-Mom Memoir My Kid Might Write
December 16th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
People rarely write memoirs about purely happy childhoods
The Wild Robot as Transracial Adoption Story
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?)
Cultural Studies: My Son, the N-Word, and Knowing Your Memes
October 7th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
Love is love, but fear is many things
Full Times: When You’re Tired But Can’t Blame the Patriarchy
June 20th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
She resented me for resenting her. Did I really think she wanted to work two jobs?
Didn’t Come Here to Make Friends: Novelist Katya Apekina on Russia, Motherhood, and Mother Doll
April 25th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
"Russian immigrants find the American friendliness to be off-putting and insane. Why do people smile so much?"
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.
“That Intersection is Everything”: Susan Kiyo Ito on Owning Her Adoption Story
February 15th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
"It wasn’t about finances, or youth, or inexperience. It was one hundred percent based on stigma and shame."